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D Rhode Island Senate · District 24 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Melissa Murray

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Total votes
3,007
all sessions
Attendance
99%
24 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 84% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,507
bills & resolutions
Higher than 97% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
3,007 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
2,932
voted in favor
Nay
51
voted against
Absent
24
missed votes
Total cast
3,007
across all sessions
Crossed party
12
votes against own party
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SB 990
AN ACT RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -- RETAIL LICENSES (Exempts any proposed retailers' Class B license to be located at 671 Broadway Street, Plat 35, Lot 566 in the city of Providence from the two hundred feet (200') requirement from schools or places of worship.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
Jun 26, 2019
SB 996
AN ACT VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of Cumberland, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Cumberland on November 6, 2018.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
Jun 26, 2019
SB 588
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - NOMINATION - DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY - PRIMARY VOTES (Moves the date of primaries to the eighth Tuesday preceding biennial state elections.)
Yea
Passed
31–4
Jun 26, 2019
SB 941
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- MODEL FOR DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMS (Requires the department of education to create a model policy/timeline to assist school districts in implementing a dual language immersion program. This model policy and timeline would be sent to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house.)
Yea
Passed
34–1
Jun 26, 2019
SB 65
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Enables city/town council to grant tax relief from payment of real estate/property tax during periods of federal/state government cessation of operations to state/federal employees.)
Yea
Passed
35–0
Jun 26, 2019
SB 940
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Creates an 11 member commission to study of Rhode Island's Education Funding Formula, and who would report back to the Senate by January 2, 2020, and bi-annually thereafter, and whose life would expire on March 2, 2021.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 25, 2019
SB 760
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- NET METERING (Adds a definition for "other eligible entity" and includes the entity under the provisions of the net metering statute and amends the definition for multi-municipal collaborative to be called multi-party collaborative.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 25, 2019
SB 776
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS--SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN (Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 25, 2019
SB 267
AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS - PSYCHOLOGISTS (Includes licensed school psychologists under the provisions of the general laws governing the regulations of psychologists, and limits the authorization of school psychologist to practice school psychology to the school setting.)
Yea
Passed
36–0
Jun 25, 2019
SB 62
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION - LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Requires municipalities to exempt from taxation the real property of a surviving spouse of a law enforcement officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, who occupies the real property as their principal place of residence.)
Yea
Passed
34–2
Jun 25, 2019
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