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D Rhode Island Senate · District 14 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Val Lawson

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Total votes
2,124
all sessions
Attendance
98%
32 missed
Higher than 93% of chamber peers
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
32
missed votes
Total cast
2,124
across all sessions
Crossed party
3
votes against own party
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Vote
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Date
SB 676
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Expands the provisions requiring the reporting of immunization status and any other relevant information to adults, not just children, and requires the department of health to include routine adult immunization in the department’s immunization program.)
Yea
Passed
30–6
Jun 20, 2019
SB 254
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION (Requires the ODEO to create and for all state and municipal employees to receive annual training in cultural competency.)
Yea
Passed
35–1
Jun 20, 2019
SB 719
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- STAY INVESTED IN RI WAVEMAKER FELLOWSHIP (Adds elementary or secondary school mathematics, world languages or science educators to those individuals eligible for a fellowship.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 20, 2019
SB 962
AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--COURTS -- SUPERIOR COURT (Allows the presiding justice of the superior court, to create a superior court diversion program.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 20, 2019
SR 194
SENATE RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION TO STUDY AND EVALUATE RHODE ISLAND'S ELECTRIC AND NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE (Creates a 22 member commission to study and evaluate Rhode Island's electric and natural gas transmission and distribution system infrastructure, and report back to the General Assembly by March 1, 2020, and expire on June 30, 2020.)
Yea
Passed
35–1
Jun 20, 2019
SB 574
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 20, 2019
SB 928
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- HISTORIC RESIDENCE--TAX CREDIT (This act would amend the definition of commission under the Rhode Island historical preservation and heritage commission to include for purposes of historic structure property tax reduction in the town of Narragansett.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 20, 2019
SB 433
AN ACT RELATING TO CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- SENIOR SAVINGS PROTECTION ACT (Protects seniors and qualified disabled adults from financial exploitation.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 20, 2019
SB 753
AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- LICENSED ACTIVITIES--CURRENCY TRANSMISSIONS (Adds virtual currency to the existing electronic money transmission and sale of check licenses and adds additional regulatory provisions to simplify and clarify licensing related thereto.)
Yea
Passed
31–2
Jun 20, 2019
SB 299
AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE (Allows pregnant women with an annual family income above applicable Medicaid income limit to be eligible to purchase health insurance through one of the Medicaid managed care plans.)
Yea
Passed
35–1
Jun 20, 2019
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