2022 -- H 8372

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING REPRESENTATIVE LIANA CASSAR FOR HER SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE

OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     Introduced By: Representatives Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Filippi, Tanzi, Fogarty, Carson,
Speakman, Ranglin-Vassell, Donovan, and Abney

     Date Introduced: June 23, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Honorable Liana Cassar graduated from the University of Connecticut

with a Bachelor's degree in communications and Spanish. Continuing her education, she earned a

Master’s degree in public health from Boston University, and an MBA from Simmons College.

She and her family reside in the Town of Barrington; and

     WHEREAS, In November of 2018, the Honorable Liana Cassar was elected to the Rhode

Island House of Representatives from District 66, which encompasses neighborhoods in the

Town of Barrington and East Providence. She is a member of the House Health and Human

Services Committee, and the House Small Business Committee; and

     WHEREAS, As a tireless advocate for her constituency, Representative Cassar has

championed legislation to establish a pilot program that leverages federal dollars to address

chronic homelessness, and the enactment of a new law to make perinatal doula services eligible

for reimbursement through private insurance which helps to address racial disparities in health

outcomes for parents and infants; and

     WHEREAS, Outspoken on many causes, Representative Cassar introduced legislation to

create the Utilization Review Act that augments healthcare affordability initiatives, and has

sponsored bills to expand Rhode Island’s successful paid family leave program and codify the

protections of the Affordable Care Act in State law. She has also been the House sponsor of the

Equality in Abortion Coverage Act, that codifies Rhode Islanders rights under the Reproductive

Privacy Act, regardless of a person’s health insurance; and

     WHEREAS, In addition to her long hours at the State House, Representative Cassar has

worked in the healthcare IT sector, and had served in the Peace Corps as a community

development worker in Costa Rica. Currently, she runs a strategy and operations consulting

business, serves as a coach for the business incubator program at Social Enterprise Greenhouse,

has served as co-chair of the Barrington Democratic Town Committee and is an advisory board

member for the Center for Health and Justice Transformation; and

     WHEREAS, Over the past four years, the Honorable Liana Cassar has served her

constituents and the citizens of Rhode Island with distinction and integrity. She has touched the

lives of so many families through her diligent efforts and with the legislation she has fought to

enact, and she is eminently worthy of our gratitude and acknowledgement; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby

honors Representative Liana Cassar as she concludes her service in the Rhode Island General

Assembly. We thank her for a job well done, and extend our sincere wishes for her continued

health, happiness, and success; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Liana Cassar.

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