STATE HOUSE – The House Judiciary Committee will be meeting on Thursday, May 5 at 3:30 p.m. in the House Lounge of the State House to vote on legislation which repeals the provision of the General Laws that declares prisoners serving a life sentence as civilly dead.

The bill (2022-H 7411) is sponsored by Rep. Evan P. Shanley (D-Dist. 24, Warwick).

The meeting will be televised live on Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox on Channels 15 and 61, on i3Broadband on Channel 15 and on Channel 34 by Verizon subscribers.  The meeting will also be live streamed at http://rilegislature.gov/CapTV/Pages/default.aspx.