The Rhode Island Legislative session that ended on June 30, 2007 resulted in the following laws, amendments and resolutions. Please view the legislative updates for the complete chronology of 2007 legislative actions relating to libraries.

• The Budget passed by the General Assembly included wording which based the 25% reimbursement for public libraries on 3 years prior instead of 2 for this year only. No other budget changes for libraries varied from what was submitted by the Governor. (Public Law Chapter 73)
• The extension of the reporting date to 2008 of the newly named Karla Harry Commission on Libraries was approved by the General Assembly and allowed to become effective without the Governor’s signature. (Resolutions 280 and 325)
• Public libraries are required to adhere to the Open Meetings Law if they meet the definition of “public body” as amended:
  
  (c) "Public body" means any department, agency, commission, committee, board, council, bureau, or authority or any subdivision thereof of state or municipal government or any library that funded at least twenty-five percent (25%) of its operational budget in the prior budget year with public funds, and shall include all authorities defined in section 42-35-1(b). For purposes of this section, any political party, organization, or unit thereof meeting or convening is not and should not be considered to be a public body; provided, however that no such meeting shall be used to circumvent the requirements of this chapter. (Public Law Chapters 129 and 180)
• The bills presented in both Houses to allow for the funding of statewide databases through OLIS were amended (RIGL 29-6-9) so that funding would be provided through state and federal funding. Resource sharing was defined as was the Library of Rhode Island Network (LORI).
  
  (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b), the funding for the statewide library catalog and the statewide access to databases shall be subject to appropriation by the general assembly. The duty imposed upon the office of state library and information services to create and maintain a statewide library catalog and provide statewide access to databases shall be subject to appropriation by the general assembly.
  
  No state funding was appropriated with this legislation this year. The bills became effective without the Governor’s signature. (Public Law Chapters 264 and 290)
• The Senate and the House concurred that the legislation creating the Rhode Island Information Resources Management Board should be repealed. This became effective without the Governor’s signature (Public Law Chapter 306).
• The bills submitted to change the representation on the state publications clearinghouse advisory committee and to provide for filing of state publications in electronic form did not get out of committee before the end of the session.