2020 -- H 7537 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- INDEPENDENT MILITARY | |
ORGANIZATIONS | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Roberts, Quattrocchi, Price, Nardone, and Chippendale | |
Date Introduced: February 12, 2020 | |
Referred To: House Finance | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 30-4-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 30-4 entitled "Independent |
2 | Military Organizations" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 30-4-3. Allowances for maintenance of armories. |
4 | The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary for |
5 | the purpose of heating, lighting, and repairing the armories of the independent chartered military |
6 | organizations of the state, or for the rental of an armory which sum shall be apportioned as |
7 | follows: |
8 | (1) For the artillery company in the town of Newport, twenty-five hundred dollars |
9 | ($2,500); |
10 | (2) For the Kentish guards, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500); |
11 | (3) For the train of artillery in the town and county of Bristol, twenty-five hundred dollars |
12 | ($2,500); |
13 | (4) For the naval militia battalion in their armory afloat, the U.S.S. Providence, two |
14 | thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); |
15 | For the Kingston Reds in the town of Coventry, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) for |
16 | the rental of an armory; |
17 | (5) For the Glocester light infantry in the town of Glocester, twenty-five hundred dollars |
18 | ($2,500); |
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1 | (6) For the Pawtuxet rangers in the city of Cranston, twenty-five hundred dollars |
2 | ($2,500); |
3 | (7) For the Varnum Continentals in the town of East Greenwich, twenty-five hundred |
4 | dollars ($2,500); and |
5 | (8) For the Federal Blues in the town of Warren, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500). |
6 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- INDEPENDENT MILITARY | |
ORGANIZATIONS | |
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1 | This act would eliminate the annual appropriation of the general assembly for the naval |
2 | militia battalion in their armory afloat, the U.S.S. Providence, in the amount of two thousand five |
3 | hundred dollars ($2,500), and would make an annual appropriation in the amount of two thousand |
4 | five hundred dollars ($2,500) to the Kingston Reds in the town of Coventry for the rental of an |
5 | armory. |
6 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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