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October 15, 2007

Special veto session of Assembly called

PROVIDENCE -- Lawmakers have been summoned back to the State House for a one-day veto override session on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Senate leaders were unavailable for immediate comment, but a spokesman for House Speaker William J. Murphy confirmed reports that letters notifying the lawmakers started going out today.

While the lawmakers are “likely’’ to vote to override Governor Carcieri’s veto of a high-profile bill banning forced overtime for nurses at hospitals, spokesman Larry Berman said action on other bills remains possible, including a Senate-passed bill to move Rhode Island’s presidential primary up from March 4 to Feb. 5.

Once the lawmakers reconvene, the Senate is expected to hold confirmation hearings for William Guglietta, the former state prosecutor, attorney general candidate and State House lawyer whom Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams recently selected for the new chief magistrate’s job lawmakers created this year in the state Traffic Tribunal.

Interest groups have been keeping up a vocal campaign to win over-ride votes on an array of other issues, ranging from domestic-partner benefits to the “pre-registration ’’ of 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. At a State House press conference recently, others urged the lawmakers to use the occasion to reverse a cost-cutting decision they adopted at Carcieri’s urging: The treatment of 17-year-old offenders as adults for purposes of criminal sentencing.

Berman said it has not yet been decided what bills will be taken up at the special session.

-- Katherine Gregg of the Journal State House Bureau

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