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| 5 | 5 | | 2023 -- H 6400 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC002552 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE |
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| 16 | 16 | | SERVICES |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives Dawson, O'Brien, and Carson |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: May 12, 2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: House Judiciary |
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| 22 | 22 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. Section 22-11-3.4 of the General Laws in Chapter 22-11 entitled "Joint 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Committee on Legislative Services" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 22-11-3.4. Duties of the law revision director. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (a) In addition to other duties assigned to the law revision director, he or she the director 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | shall rearrange, rephrase, and consolidate the public laws and acts and resolves of the general 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | assembly so that redundancies may be avoided, obsolete enactments eliminated, contradictions 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | reconciled, omissions supplied, and imperfections cured. The law revision director has no authority 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | either to change the law or to alter the substance of the statutes but shall alert the general assembly 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | annually to specific changes, which may be required. In addition, a report shall be filed annually 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | with the general assembly which that shall indicate which sections of the general laws at the 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | previous session had more than one amendment were amended by more than one act during the 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | previous legislative session and displaying a copy of the final version of the statute on the first 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | legislative day of the next subsequent session of the general assembly. For the purposes of this 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | section, duplicate bills arising in each chamber and passed in concurrence shall be treated as one 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | act. 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) The law revision director shall, by February 1, 2020, file a report with the general 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | assembly proposing amendments to those sections of the general laws that do not use appropriate 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | disability language as required by § 43-3-7.1. The report shall also include a list of those statutes 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | for which amendments are not being proposed pursuant to § 43-3-7.1 because the director had 1 |
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| 45 | 45 | | determined that such amendments could alter the intent of the statute. The report shall be prepared 2 |
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| 46 | 46 | | after consultation with the governor’s commission on disabilities. 3 |
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| 47 | 47 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 4 |
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| 54 | 54 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 55 | 55 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 56 | 56 | | OF |
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| 57 | 57 | | A N A C T |
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| 58 | 58 | | RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE |
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| 59 | 59 | | SERVICES |
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| 60 | 60 | | *** |
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| 61 | 61 | | This act would require the law revision director to report to the general assembly, sections 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | of law that are amended by multiple acts during the same legislative session. 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 3 |
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