The Judiciary Committee, which has played a pivotal role in past legislation on abortion and guns, will hear testimony on the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act today.
Until Governor McKee appoints a three-member commission, no new licenses can be issued or advertising allowed. A new bill will be heard Tuesday that would allow the state Office of Cannabis Regulation to handle advertising rules in the interim.
On the R.I. Report podcast, Senator Joshua Miller and RI PBS Weekly producer Isabella Jibilian talk about what can be done to provide homeless people with better options than an emergency room.
“She never took out a whip – she took out her wit,” one senator said. “And her wit got us through it and necessarily brought us across the finish line.”