Rhode Island State Representative

John Edwards Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5678

Introduced
2/26/25  
Requires small employers with one to fifty (1-50) employees and large employers with fifty (50) or more employees to pay overtime wages to exempt workers if their salary exceeds varying multipliers of minimum wage for a forty (40) hour workweek.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5681

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows for waiver from testing for temporary or emergency positions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5702

Introduced
2/26/25  
Increases the number of days a retired municipal employee could work in a calendar year without interruption of pension benefits to ninety (90) days.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5706

Introduced
2/26/25  
Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfer all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5730

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Includes boats and marine-related assets in the blanket permit available for overweight or over-dimensional vehicles.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5685

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows casino workers to receive overtime pay for working Sundays and Holidays.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5701

Introduced
2/26/25  
Makes the provisions of ยงยง 45-19.1-3 and 45-19.1-4, benefits for firefighters with cancer, effective regardless of any general, special or specific law, or any charter and/or municipal ordinance to the contrary.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5707

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5712

Introduced
2/26/25  
Establishes fusion voting in Rhode Island, allowing candidates to appear on ballots as nominees of multiple political parties, for the same office.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5713

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits members of elected city/town political party committees as well as representative/senate district committees from serving on local canvassing authorities.