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

Senate leaders refused comment on their plans, but a spokesman for House Speaker William J. Murphy confirmed reports yesterday that letters notifying House members of the Oct. 30 special session had gone out earlier in the day.

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, House 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, however, the Senate is expected to hold confirmation hearings for William Guglietta, a former state prosecutor, Democratic candidate for attorney general, and legal adviser to the House majority leader. Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams has selected Guglietta for the new chief magistrate’s job lawmakers created this year in the Traffic Tribunal. Including his longevity stipend, the job would pay Guglietta an estimated $155,172.

Interest groups have been keeping up a vocal campaign to win override 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 recent State House news conference, 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.

After speaking with Senate President Joseph Montalbano yesterday, his spokesman Greg Pare said: “I can’t confirm that there is a special session.”

kgregg@projo.com