D Rhode Island Senate · District 14 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Val Lawson

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Session

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

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

This page

2,124

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 459

AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - COURTS - DOMESTIC ASSAULT (Updates the language required to be given by police officers when responding to domestic abuse calls.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 781

AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY (Reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll violator" from twenty (20) to ten (10). The act also reduces the number of infractions for a person to be considered a "toll evader" from one hundred (100) to twenty (20).)

Yea

Passed

32–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 410

AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - PLASTIC WASTE REDUCTION ACT (Creates the "Plastic Waste Reduction Act" designed to reduce the use of plastic bags by retail establishments by offering recyclable bag options and providing penalties for violations.)

Yea

Passed

32–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 453

AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - LOCAL PLANNING BOARD OR COMMISSION (Requires initial, biennial, and continuing education in land use law and planning for local planning, zoning, or historic board and commission members.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 509

AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES (Comprehensively addresses wage discrimination by expanding employee protections and the scope of the remedies available to employees who have experienced wage discrimination.)

Yea

Passed

29–4

Jun 6, 2019

SB 839

AN ACT RELATING TO THE 9/11 MEMORIAL (Amends the language on the 9/11 Memorial in the State House to include all Rhode Islanders.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 500

AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Extends monitoring of hospital conversions from 3 to 5 years/increases fine for violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000/simplifies judicial review.)

Yea

Passed

32–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 872

AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE CONSTRUCTIONS (Names the URI College of Engineering Building as the "Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.")

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 898

AN ACT RELATING TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHILDREN'S GROVE (Allows private corporation, Children’s Grove, to convey its open space and recreational property to nonprofit third parties or a municipal corporation; provided that, such property shall be held and maintained for public recreation and open space.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019

SB 334

AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES (Requires that any use of a premises for marijuana cultivation be disclosed in any real estate transaction.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 6, 2019