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 5661
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- PRIVATE SCHOOLS (Requires accreditation by a Regional Accrediting Agency recognized by the United States Department of Education for distance learning institutions to transact business or grant degrees in Rhode Island.)
Yea
Passed
66–0
May 23, 2017
HB 6169
AN ACT TO VACATE THE FORFEITURE OR REVOCATION OF THE CHARTER OF SAVE THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Yea
Passed
66–0
May 23, 2017
HB 5701
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Gives local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 18, 2017
HB 5575
AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- STATEWIDE MUNICIPAL SOLAR PERMIT (Requires the Rhode Island office of energy resources, in consultation with the building commission to promulgate rules and regulations to create a statewide solar photovoltaic permit application.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 18, 2017
HB 6008
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - PRIMARY ELECTIONS (Allows a person appointed as a primary official to be an employee of the United States, of this state, or of any city or town of this state.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 18, 2017
HB 6008
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - PRIMARY ELECTIONS (Allows a person appointed as a primary official to be an employee of the United States, of this state, or of any city or town of this state.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 18, 2017
HB 5457
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- OPERATORS' AND CHAUFFEURS' LICENSES (Establishes a free course of instruction for the parent, guardian, or designee of a child enrolled in a driver education program.)
Other
Passed
54–10
May 17, 2017
HB 6061
AN ACT RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE (Designates October 23 of each year as a day to commemorate the nine Rhode Island marines killed in the 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut, Lebanon.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 17, 2017
HB 5965
AN ACT ENABLING THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF BURRILLVILLE TO EXEMPT CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM TAXATION (Reduces to three (3) years the residency requirement for the town of Burrillville's partial real estate tax exemption for the elderly.)
Other
Passed
65–0
May 17, 2017
HB 5453
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- ALL STUDENTS COUNT ACT (Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of residents.)
Other
Passed
59–5
May 17, 2017
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