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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $100,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT

OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Slater, Diaz, and Williams

     Date Introduced: April 14, 2022

     Referred To: House Finance

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     WHEREAS, Founded in 1993, the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island

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(WRARI) is a nonprofit, predominantly volunteer organization dedicated to fostering an

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understanding and respect for wildlife, promoting conservation of wildlife and natural resources,

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and helping injured and orphaned wildlife in Rhode Island; and

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     WHEREAS, Under the management of the WRARI, the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island

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provides "veterinary and rehabilitative care to all species of injured and/or orphaned native wild

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animals in Rhode Island with the intent of returning them to their native habitats"; and

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     WHEREAS, Through the efforts of WRARI, the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island, and

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private rehabilitators, care has been provided for more than five thousand (5,000) animals in

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Rhode Island; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not

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otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2022-2023, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars

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($100,000) to the Department of Environmental Management to provide funding to the Wildlife

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Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island for a veterinarian at the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode

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Island; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his orders upon the

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general treasurer for the payment of said sum, or so much thereof as may be from time to time

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required, upon receipt of properly authenticated vouchers.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $100,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT

OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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     This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of one hundred thousand

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dollars ($100,000) to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management for the

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purpose of providing funding for a veterinarian at the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island.

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