2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 22 - General Assembly
Chapter 22-6 - Committees and Staff
Section 22-6-2 - Committee clerks.
§ 22-6-2. Committee clerks.
The chairperson of each of the committees on judiciary, corporations, special legislation, finance, labor, and health, education, and welfare of the senate and the committees on health, education and welfare, judiciary, corporations, special legislation, finance, and labor of the house of representatives, and the joint committee on accounts and claims may each employ a clerk, and the clerk of the latter committee shall be ex-officio clerk of the joint committee on law revision. In addition, the speaker of the house of representatives may appoint a deputy clerk to assist the recording clerk and in the absence of the recording clerk to perform the duties of the recording clerk as deputy and in the absence of the reading clerk to perform the duties of the reading clerk as deputy. The deputy clerk shall receive a sum in full payment for all services rendered at any regular session of the general assembly as determined and set by the joint committee on legislative services.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1909, ch. 25, § 38; P.L. 1917, ch. 1460, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 24, § 38; G.L. 1923, ch. 24, § 39; P.L. 1930, ch. 1526, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 301, § 39; P.L. 1945, ch. 1537, § 1; P.L. 1946, ch. 1669, § 1; P.L. 1949, ch. 2158, § 1; P.L. 1951, ch. 2652, § 1; P.L. 1955, ch. 3411, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 22-6-2; P.L. 1962, ch. 253, § 1; P.L. 1965, ch. 237, § 2; P.L. 1967, ch. 3, § 1; P.L. 1967, ch. 51, § 1; P.L. 1969, ch. 1, § 1; P.L. 1973, ch. 164, § 1.)
