Legislative Updates

2023

H 5148:

Requires publishers to provide electronic book licenses to libraries and schools on reasonable terms, when a publishers offers to license electronic books and digital audiobooks to the public in Rhode Island.

Read the full text for H 5148 at the Rhode Island General Assembly website.
Sponsor(s):
  • Representative Lauren Carson
  • Representative Terri Cortvriend
  • Representative Joseph J. Solomon, Jr.
  • Representative Justine A. Caldwell
  • Representative June Speakman
  • Representative David Morales
  • Representative Kathleen A. Fogarty
Actions:

2021

H 5148:

Establishes the eleven (11) member broadband council to create a plan to increase the use of broadband service in the state. The council would include a library representative.

Read the full text for H 5148 at the Rhode Island General Assembly website.
Sponsor(s):
  • Representative Deborah Ruggerio
  • Representative Christopher R. Blazejewski
  • Representative Katherine S. Kazarian
  • Representative Terri Cortvriend
  • Representative Lauren H. Carson
  • Representative Michelle E. McGaw
Actions:
See Sub A
Read the full text for Sub A at the Rhode Island General Assembly website.
See S 0896