Total votes
2,842
all sessions
Attendance
83%
495 missed
Among the lowest in the chamber
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 85% of chamber peers
Sponsored
2,129
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
1
assignment
2,842 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
2,291
voted in favor
Nay
56
voted against
Absent
495
missed votes
Total cast
2,842
across all sessions
Crossed party
1
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 5590
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -SALES AND USE TAXES-ENFORCEMENT AND COLLECTION (Enacts two 10 year statute of limitations on two separate tax functions.)
Yea
Passed
61–0
Jun 28, 2019
HB 5679
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - ENGINEERS (Requires that plans for natural gas infrastructure be built to a set of design standards approved by a certified engineer if the work poses a material public safety risk.)
Yea
Passed
60–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 78
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES - VIOLATIONS (Allows a person to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of motor vehicle fines or costs, and would permit a person to request an ability to pay hearing before a license is suspended for failure to pay such fines or costs.)
Yea
Passed
62–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 62
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Requires municipalities to exempt from taxation the real property of a surviving spouse of a law enforcement officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, who occupies the real property as their principal place of residence.)
Yea
Passed
66–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 1036
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - RHODE ISLAND CERTIFICATIONS STANDARDS BOARD [SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT] (Creates the Right to Read Act to require certain licensed teachers to be proficient in scientific reading instruction.)
Yea
Passed
61–0
Jun 28, 2019
HB 6237
AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts any proposed retailers' Class B license to be located at 671 Broadway Street, Plat 35, Lot 566 in the city of Providence from the two hundred feet (200') requirement from schools or places of worship.)
Yea
Passed
61–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 315
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- CAUSES OF ACTION (Statute of limitation for childhood sex abuse claims extended to 35 years.)
Yea
Passed
59–1
Jun 28, 2019
SB 586
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS (Eliminates division of planning from evaluation process of future state prop. leases. Eliminates requirement of notice to local planning board's planning program of hearings and zoning changes.)
Yea
Passed
66–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 46
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Allows a school district to conduct instruction through virtual education up to five (5) days when schools have been closed due to inclement weather, emergency or any nonscheduled school closings.)
Yea
Passed
65–0
Jun 28, 2019
SB 398
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - DESIGNERS OF INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS (Provides that professional engineers who are registered and authorized to practice by the Rhode Island state board of registration for professional engineers be deemed to have met the qualifications for a designer's license.)
Yea
Passed
61–0
Jun 28, 2019
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