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The Senate Committee on Housing and Municipal Government will meet tomorrow to consider Deborah J. Goddard’s appointment as Secretary of Housing and hold hearings on several bills.

The committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Tuesday, March 4, at 3 p.m. in Room 212 on the second floor of the State House.

Among the bills the committee will hear is:

· 2025-S 0273 — Sponsored by Sen. Dawn Euer (D-Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown), this bill would allow the water and sewer commission of Jamestown to limit its public water system’s obligation to supply water to only within the commission’s designated and described area as opposed to the entire land area of the town.

Capitol Television will broadcast the meeting on channels 15 and 61 for high definition on Cox Communications, channel 15 on i3Broadband (Formerly Full Channel), and channel 34 for Verizon viewers. Senate committee hearings may also air on Channel 75 for Cox subscribers. Livestreaming is available at https://capitoltvri.cablecast.tv/.

Anyone wishing to submit written testimony must email it to SLegislation@rilegislature.gov by 2 p.m. on Tuesday so that it can be provided to the committee members at the hearing and included in the meeting records.

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