Total votes
2,124
all sessions
Attendance
-
of floor votes
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 93% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 96% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,073
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
1
assignment
2,124 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
2,060
voted in favor
Nay
32
voted against
Absent
0
missed votes
Total cast
2,124
across all sessions
Crossed party
3
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 609
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE-- PROCEDURE GENERALLY -- FEES (Allows jurors to donate their juror fees to the state. Any such donation would be deposited into the general fund.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
May 18, 2021
SB 734
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Establishes a military family advocacy program to address child abuse and neglect in military families.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 18, 2021
SB 677
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - TRAFFIC TRIBUNAL (Vests the traffic tribunal with jurisdiction over the adjudication of alleged violations of the harassment of hunters, trappers and fishers law.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
May 18, 2021
SB 442
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- THREE WHEEL VEHICLES (Provides that three (3)-wheeled motorcycles be included under the licensing requirements of the department of motor vehicles. Effective March 1, 2022.)
Yea
Passed
33–0
May 18, 2021
SB 89
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- OFFENSES PERTAINING TO SCHOOLS (SEE TITLE 16 CHAPTER 97 - THE RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT) (Prohibits the use of a school district's listserv to distribute any political advertisement, invitation, and/or propaganda.)
Yea
Passed
33–0
May 18, 2021
SB 211
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS (Establishes courses that include instruction in career and technical education programs.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 18, 2021
SB 198
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES (Allows business vehicles which are owned by an entity which a veteran owns, and is registered and authorized to conduct business in the state of Rhode Island, to register such business vehicles with veteran plates.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
May 18, 2021
SB 263
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- CHILDREN (Raises the legal age for individuals to be sold or delivered certain tobacco products, including electronic nicotine-delivery systems products from eighteen (18) years of age to twenty-one (21) years of age.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
May 11, 2021
SB 749
AN ACT RELATING TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE SERVICES (Provides for amendments to statutes by the director of law revision to comply with the state name change approved by way of statewide referendum in November, 2020.)
Yea
Passed
33–0
May 11, 2021
SR 15
JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE -- PROCEDURE TO FILL VACANCY IN OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, ATTORNEY GENERAL OR GENERAL TREASURER (This joint resolution would present to the electors a Rhode Island constitutional amendment which would create a procedure to fill vacancies in the offices of secretary of state, attorney general or general treasurer.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
May 11, 2021
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