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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF

AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES

     Introduced By: Representative Spencer E.Dickinson

     Date Introduced: February 12, 2014

     Referred To: House Judiciary

     RESOLVED, That a majority of all members elected to each house of the general

assembly voting therefore, the following amendment to the Constitution of the state be proposed

to the qualified electors of the state in accordance with the provisions of Article XIV of the

Constitution, for their approval and the following section is hereby amended, effective on January

1, 2015, to read as follows:

ARTICLE VII

OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

     Section 1. Composition. -- There shall be one hundred (100) members of the house of

representatives, provided, however, that commencing in 2003 there shall be seventy-five (75)

members of the house of representatives. The house of representatives shall be constituted on the

basis of population and the representative districts, shall be fifty (50) in number, shall be as nearly

equal in population and as compact in territory as possible. Each representative district shall elect

two (2) members, one of whom shall be male and one of whom shall be female. The general

assembly shall, after any new census taken by authority of the United States, reapportion the

representation to conform to the Constitution of the state and the Constitution of the United

States.

     RESOLVED, That the said proposition of amendment shall be submitted to the electors

of their approval or rejection at the next statewide general election. The voting places in the

several cities and towns shall be kept open during the hours required by law for voting therein for

general officers of the state; and be it further

     That the secretary of state shall cause the said proposition of amendment to be published

as a part of this resolution in the newspapers of the state prior to the date of the said meetings of

the said electors; and the said proposition shall be inserted in the warrants or notices to be issued

previous to said meetings of the electors for the purpose of warning the town, ward, or district

meetings, and said proposition shall be read by the town, ward, or district meetings to be held as

aforesaid; and be it further

     That the town, ward, and district meetings to be held aforesaid shall be warned, and the

list of voters shall be canvassed and made up, and the said town, ward, and district meetings shall

be conducted in the same manner as now provided by law for the town, ward, and district

meetings for the election of general officers of the state.

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