Total votes
1,309
all sessions
Attendance
61%
517 missed
Lower than 98% of chamber peers
With party
94%
of cast votes
Lower than 98% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 95% of chamber peers
Sponsored
78
bills & resolutions
Lower than 96% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
1,309 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
749
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Nay
43
voted against
Absent
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missed votes
Total cast
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 5196
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS (Limits health plans that provide coverage for prescription insulin drugs used to treat diabetes to forty dollars ($40.00) for a copayment for a thirty (30) day supply of medically necessary insulin. Effective date 1/1/2022.)
Yea
Passed
70–0
Jun 3, 2021
HB 5600
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES (Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk- limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.)
Yea
Passed
68–0
Jun 3, 2021
HB 6385
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows the Honorable Mary Ann Shallcross Smith to join Megan T. Amaral and Mitchell L. Shallcross in marriage on or about June 21, 2021, within the Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
56–0
Jun 3, 2021
HB 5283
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- LICENSING AND MONITORING OF CHILD PLACING AGENCIES, CHILD CARING AGENCIES, FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES, AND CHILDREN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS (Requires all foster parents to undergo sensitivity training regarding the culture of their foster child.)
Yea
Passed
65–5
Jun 1, 2021
SB 318
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD (Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.)
Yea
Passed
66–3
Jun 1, 2021
HB 5276
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE RHODE ISLAND CESSPOOL ACT OF 2007 (Allows DEM to extend certain deadlines for required sewer construction in the replacement of cesspools, which deadlines would not extend beyond January 1, 2026.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 1, 2021
SB 398
AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- MARRIAGE LICENSES (Repeals the provision of law granting minors the ability to obtain a marriage license, and would require a person to be of full legal age, at least eighteen (18) years of age to obtain a marriage license.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 1, 2021
HB 5698
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 -- THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Requires all public schools to send out written invitations to all parents, guardians or caretakers of students inviting those parents, guardians or caretakers to an orientation at the school.)
Yea
Passed
70–0
Jun 1, 2021
SB 862
AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BRISTOL (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Bristol, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Bristol on November 3, 2020.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 1, 2021
HB 5522
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ACCESS TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES FOR ALL STUDENTS ACT (Establishes a process for CCRI, RIC and URI to accept for college credit an advanced placement subject test score of three (3) ("qualified") or better in an advanced placement course.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 1, 2021
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