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RIH7469Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- INTERSTATE COMPACT ON INDUSTRIALIZED/MODULAR BUILDINGS - Repeals the Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings in its entirety.
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2024-03-15
Placed on House Calendar (03/21/2024)
RIS2078Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS - Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2084Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS IN CHILDREN RELIEF FUND - Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insuran...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2152Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIH7356Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 - Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIS2179Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- UNIFORM TELEHEALTH ACT - Allows an out-of-state health care practitioner to provide telehealth services to a patient located in this state if the services are consistent with the practitioner's scope of practice and state and fed...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2296Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Prohibits the application of lawn care pesticides on the grounds of any public or private pre-school or public or private school with students in grade twelve (12) or lower, except in an emergency situation.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2381Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REGISTRATION OF NURSING ASSISTANTS - Establishes home care nursing assistants licensed by the department of health to work exclusively in home care.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2300Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MICROPLASTICS REDUCTION ACT - Prohibits a manufacturer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing into commerce any product containing synthetic polymer micro particles beginning January 1, 2028.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIH7617Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BUILDING DECARBONIZATION ACT OF 2024 - Establishes a program for the energy and water benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH7619Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- TOXIC PACKAGING REDUCTION ACT - Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in processing agents, until July 1, 2027, and also expands the law by banning PVC and polystyrene in packaging.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH7784Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AIR POLLUTION - Prohibits the department of environmental management from adopting motor vehicle emissions standards based on California's promulgated standards. It also requires any rules or regulations related to said standards...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH7782Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN HEAT STANDARD ACT - Created the Rhode Island clean heat standards act to implement a system of tradeable clean heat credits earned from the delivery of clean heat measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissio...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21]
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIS2540Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLEAN AIR PRESERVATION ACT - Establishes regulations to prohibit stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM) experimentation, and other hazardous weather engineering activities.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIS2544Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIH7893Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Establishes building safety code standards for multi-dwelling buildings and requires the development of recommendations for resolving any conflicts between fire safety codes and the building codes.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIS2714Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2721Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- NATIONAL PROVIDER IDENTIFIER OFF-CAMPUS LOCATIONS - Requires each off-campus location of a hospital and each subpart of an organization health care provider to have a unique identification number so that the costs associated with...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIH8025Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- REPRODUCTIVE TISSUE SAFETY AND STORAGE ACT OF 2024 - Creates the "Reproductive Tissue Safety and Storage Act of 2024."
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19]
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIS2745Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PESTICIDE CONTROL - Precludes the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticide products which contain brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, or difethialone, except in certain circumstances.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20]
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee
RIH8071Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT - Does not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram.
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Natural Resources Committee
RIH8079Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH PROFESSIONAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM - Increases the annual appropriation for the Health Professional Loan Repayment Program from one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to one million dollars ($1,000,000).
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
RIH7325Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- FOOD ALLERGY AWARENESS IN FOOD-SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Requires food service establishments to add an additional warning to their menus relative to food allergens and impose a civil penalty on those establishments that fail to i...
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2024-03-14
To House Small Business Committee
RIH7701Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE -- ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT - Consolidates and transfers the duties of the state building inspector to the state building code commissioner and establish a state building code education and training acad...
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2024-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH7732Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS - Includes among the responsibilities of the office of state medical examiners, to provide a multidisciplinary team review of suicide deaths with a goal of reducing its prevalence by examining tr...
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2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7734Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DENSE BREAST NOTIFICATION AND EDUCATION - Amends the notice requirement to patients to follow the mandated FDA national reporting standards following a mammogram.
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2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7882Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LACTATION CONSULTANT PRACTICE ACT OF 2014 - Specifies the requirements and procedures for licensing lactation consultants as well as the renewal, expiration, termination, refusal, revocation and suspension of licenses.
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2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7880Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS - Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.
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2024-03-12
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIH7983Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Amends various provisions relative to the duties of the state building commissioner and would establish a building code education and training unit to educate building officials and inspectors statewide.
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2024-03-12
To House Municipal Government & Housing Committee
RIH7301Engross
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Allows the healthcare facility to conduct human-subject research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent of human subjects.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2761Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE - Establishes building safety code standards for multi-dwelling buildings and requires the development of recommendations for resolving any conflicts between fire safety codes and the building codes.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee
RIS2759Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LONG-TERM CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL - Provides for remote participation in open public meetings of the long-term care coordinating council and would provide that a quorum of the council consists of 12 members.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIS2751Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Amends Article 9 of the state budget and various provisions relative to hospital licensing fees, would redefine base year for purposes of calculating disproportionate share payments for fiscal...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee
RIS2262Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT - Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgende...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2074Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMBRYO SAFETY AND STORAGE - Creates the "Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2024." The act requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
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2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
RIH7663Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
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2024-03-07
To House State Government & Elections Committee
RIH7738Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS - Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments.
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2024-03-07
To House Corporations Committee
RIH7219Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES -- HIV/AIDS - Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this...
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7523Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Provides an exemption for certain incarcerated persons from the payment of fees for a first request for vital statistics from the department of health.
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
RIH7529Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- BORN-ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT - Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one...
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
RIS2093Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LILA MANFIELD SAPINSLEY COMPASSIONATE CARE ACT - Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIS2263Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES - Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIH7577Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHIELD BILL - Enacts the Health Care Provider Shield Bill, precluding any individual from interfering with another's access to transgender health care services and reproductive health care services.
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
RIS2276Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VEHICLE BARRIERS-THE CHARLOTTE A. VACCA ACT - Requires commercial property owners to install vehicle barriers at their retail establishment locations when construction/renovations are being done and permits insurers to consider t...
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2024-03-05
To Senate Commerce Committee
RIS2274Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- VITAL RECORDS - Requires the division of vital records to ensure that the records are accessible to the local registrars and grant local registrars the authority to issue certified copies of certificates and records.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Commerce Committee
RIS2423Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MEDICAL ETHICS DEFENSE ACT - Establishes the right of a medical practitioner, healthcare institution, or healthcare payer not to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or service this violates their conscience.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
RIH7736Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM - Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory langu...
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2024-03-05
To House Health & Human Services Committee
RIS2716Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Establishes the primary care training sites program and appropriates $2,700,000 for implementing the program.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
RIS2717Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE MEDICAL PRIMARY CARE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee
RIH7969Intro
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HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN NURSING AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES - Allows electronic monitoring of residents or private living unit in nursing or assisted living facility with certain restrictions.
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2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee
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