Total votes
3,655
all sessions
Attendance
93%
261 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
95%
of cast votes
Lower than 96% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 94% of chamber peers
Sponsored
292
bills & resolutions
Lower than 80% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
3,655 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
3,234
voted in favor
Nay
160
voted against
Absent
261
missed votes
Total cast
3,655
across all sessions
Crossed party
152
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 7540
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE GENERALLY - THE STATE FALSE CLAIM ACT (Amends the State False Claims Act to reflect amendments to the Federal False Claims Act.)
Other
Passed
67–0
Jun 12, 2018
SB 2382
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION (Allows the Tiverton town council to grant, by ordinance, property tax credits and removes the current property assessment value-based tax exemptions for veterans, gold star parents and visually impaired persons.)
Yea
Passed
68–0
Jun 12, 2018
HB 7473
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - ARREST (Repeals section 12-7-9 ("conditions justifying force dangerous to life").)
Yea
Passed
62–7
Jun 12, 2018
HB 7816
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- TAX SALES (Expedites the foreclosure procedure on vacant property.) Against party
Nay
Passed
49–18
Jun 12, 2018
SB 2932
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Tina L. Spears to join Melody Rose Lawrence and Jeffrey Arnold Schmeltz in marriage on or about June 16, 2018, within the Town of Jamestown, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
62–4
Jun 12, 2018
HB 7186
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS-NOMINATION OF PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES-CITY OF WOONSOCKET (Provides that nomination papers for certain candidates for citywide nonpartisan office in the city of Woonsocket would require at least one hundred (100) signatures.)
Yea
Passed
69–0
Jun 12, 2018
SB 2891
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Kathleen Nee to join Julia McDowell and the Honorable Seth Magaziner in marriage on or about July 28, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
62–4
Jun 12, 2018
SB 2890
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Thomas Blute to join Nancianne Smith and Raymond Coleman in marriage on or about October 20, 2018, within the Town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
62–4
Jun 12, 2018
HB 7477
AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- ANIMAL CARE (Requires pet shops to only sell cats or dogs obtained from an animal shelter, dog pound or animal rescue.)
Yea
Passed
64–3
Jun 12, 2018
SB 2889
AN ACT RELATING TO SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Allows Michael Sullivan to join Brittany Sirois and Marc Peluso in marriage on or about August 10, 2018, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
62–4
Jun 12, 2018
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