RHODE ISLAND
NBC 10
BY MARIO HILARIO; NBC 10 NEWS SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH 2016
Providence, RI — Rhode Island lawmakers burned the midnight oil, and then some, to wrap up the 2016 legislative session.
The General Assembly officially wrapped up the year after 6:00 a.m. Saturday.
The Senate passed the State’s nearly nine billion dollar budget just after 1:30 a.m., and there were still many pieces of legislation left to tackle for both Senators and Representatives. …
One piece of legislation that also passed related to schools, would add educational institutions to the State’s mandatory reporting requirements to ensure schools report allegations of abuse to the Department of Children Youth and Families. The bill’s sponsors say it closed a loophole that came to light with the revelation that decades of alleged abuse at St. George’s school in Middletown was not reported to authorities and there was no law requiring the school to do so.
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