The R.I. House of Representatives didn’t adjourn until about 3:30 a.m. What were they doing lo those many hours? Here’s a sample of what the House passed (excluding duplicate bills) in its final hours, from a crackdown on charitable gift cards to a bill to protect the Woonsocket cross memorial.

- 3:28 a.m.: Require the R.I. Resource Recovery Corporation to create “an off-site air quality monitoring system.”

- 3:12 a.m.: Create a citizens advisory board at the R.I. Resource Recovery Corporation, add a third commissioner from Johnston to the agency’s board.

- 3:10 a.m.: Give legal immunity to dam management districts in disputes over lake beds.

- 3:07 a.m.: Order Health and Human Services Secretary Steven Costantino to create a new system of state reimbursement rates for nursing homes.

- 2:59 a.m.: Allow “certain memorials” to be designated “category one memorial items,” defined as having “a secular traditional, cultural, or community recognition and/or value, and would not constitute the making of a law regarding the establishment of a state religion.” Sponsored by Woonsocket lawmakers.

- 2:50 a.m.: Allow some large Rhode Island employers to pay workers biweekly.

- 2:48 a.m.: The Blazejewski “super PAC” bill on campaign finance disclosure.

- 2:44 a.m.: Put the Rhode Island Climate Change Commission under the Coastal Resources Management Council and postpone the due date for its first report from March 2011 to March 2013.

- 1:26 a.m.: Add a voting student representative to the R.I. Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education and create a student advisory council to the board elected by each high school in the state.

- 1:23 a.m.: The public records bill.

- 1:22 a.m.: Allow gift cards to expire after one year – only if they’re donated to a charity!

- 1:22 a.m.: Bar transfer fees “based solely on the subsequent resale or transfer of said property,” with exceptions included conservation land and condo associations.

- 1:21 a.m.: Repeal a law allowing prisoners at the ACI to use time served as credit against “the nonpayment of a fine, costs or failure to give recognizance in the amount ordered” if that’s why they’re in jail. (Dead link.)

- 1:19 a.m.: Require a search warrant to obtain information from “portable electronic devices.”

- 1:18 a.m.: Keep all polling places in low-income and senior housing complexes and exempt them from the requirement they have a minimum of 500 voters.

- 1:17 a.m.: Create a new division of deputy sheriffs at the R.I. Department of Public Safety.

- 1:13 a.m.: Define “arboriculture” and “production of wood mulch” as commercial agriculture.

- 11:38 p.m.: “Permit a trustee who has absolute power” to use a trust’s principal money “to make distributions to a second trust for the benefit of the same beneficiaries.”

- 11:36 p.m.: Create a new hearing process at the R.I. Department of Labor and Training and “provide a private right of action” to employees who say they weren’t paid correctly or were incorrectly classified as an independent contractor.

- 11:35 p.m.: Limit who can “bring or intervene in a court action affecting a conservation restriction.”

- 11:35 p.m.: Bar credit bureaus from using only a Social Security number to determine whether its files are for the right person; address, date of birth or other details would also have to be used.

- 11:34 p.m.: Exempt nonprofit cemeteries’ land from “adverse possession or prescription.”