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Powers and duties. The Rhode Island Department of State or is composed of five separate divisions: The Elections and Civics Division prepares ballots, ensures accessibility of voting facilities, qualifies and certifies the names of all federal and state candidates for ballot placement, maintains a database of registered voters, and ensures compliance with the Help America Vote Act.
Responsibilities. The General Treasurer "is responsible for the safe and prudent management of the State’s finances." The Office of the General Treasurer has stated that its mission is " to protect the state's assets with sound financial investments, strengthen the state’s financial position, encourage economic growth, operate with transparency and accountability, and ensure Rhode ...
Wage transparency, salary compensation, and compensation transparency generally, involves disclosure of employee compensation amounts, either among other employees in an organization, to owners, to government regulators, or to the public. Some jurisdictions have pay transparency laws intended to prevent discrimination based on demographics like ...
April 8, 2024 at 2:04 AM. Don't just tell us Rhode Island's open-records law is "famously flawed." Show us. So wrote a reader named "Judy" after The Journal ran a front-page story on March 21 on ...
Government of Rhode Island. The government of the state of Rhode Island is prescribed from a multitude of sources; the main sources are the Rhode Island Constitution, the General Laws, and executive orders. The governmental structure is modeled on the Government of the United States in having three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial .
Albert C. Greene, 1825–1843. John Sanford, of Portsmouth May 1663 – November 1664. John Easton, of Newport 1664–1670. John Sanford, of Portsmouth 1670–1671. Joseph Torrey, of Newport 1671–1672. John Easton, of Newport 1672–1674. Peter Easton, of Newport 1674–1676. Weston Clarke, of Newport 1676–1677.
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services is a cabinet-level agency in Rhode Island. [1] The current EOHHS Secretary is Womazetta Jones . EOHHS was created by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 2006 and is codified in Title 42 Chapter 7.2 of the R.I. General Laws. The agency serves as an umbrella organization for Rhode Island's ...
The department, headed by the Director of Administration, has seventeen programmatic functions. The functions include Legal Services, Accounts and Control, Purchasing, Auditing, Human Resources, Budgeting, Facilities Management, Personnel Appeal Board, Information Technology, Capital Projects and Property Management, General Appropriations ...