Total votes
1,557
all sessions
Attendance
87%
209 missed
Higher than 86% of chamber peers
With party
93%
of cast votes
Lower than 98% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 94% of chamber peers
Sponsored
385
bills & resolutions
Lower than 76% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
1,557 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
1,265
voted in favor
Nay
83
voted against
Absent
209
missed votes
Total cast
1,557
across all sessions
Crossed party
86
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 643
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.)
Yea
Passed
32–0
Jun 8, 2017
SB 446
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKPLACE SAFETY ACT (Amends the definitions of "smoking" and "retail tobacco store" to include electronic smoking devices, electronic nicotine delivery system products and other products that rely on vaporization or aerosolization.) Against party
Nay
Passed
29–3
Jun 8, 2017
SB 790
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES & CARRIERS - RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Authorizes RIPTA to provide an open-door service to all passengers to and from Rhode Island to locations within five (5) miles of the Rhode Island boarder into Massachusetts and Connecticut.)
Yea
Passed
32–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 648
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - HEALTH CARE FACILITIES STAFFING (Broadens definition of "employee" to include assistants/technologists providing direct medical care to patients and allows union/association to file appeal to personnel appeal board.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 486
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Determine reimbursement rates for medical records copies from health care providers including those that utilize an electronic health records system.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 863
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT (Requires health care facilities to report to the department of health the use of non-Rhode Island licensed nurses.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 555
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 effective upon approval of an online version of the course by the board of education but no sooner than January 1, 2018.)
Yea
Passed
24–9
Jun 7, 2017
SB 163
AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- THE KENT COUNTY WATER DISTRICT (Adds two members to the board of the Kent County Water Authority.)
Yea
Passed
33–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 270
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER (Establishes aging/disability resource center within division of elderly affairs as part of long-term care system for elderly/disabled persons/family caregivers/providers and makes annual appropriation in the sum of $1,000,000 to establish the center.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
Jun 7, 2017
SB 692
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - AUTOMATED TRAFFIC VIOLATION MONITORING SYSTEMS (Increases the amount of time, from fourteen (14) days to twenty-eight (28) days, for a summons to issue solely based on evidence obtained by use of an automated traffic-violation-detection system.)
Yea
Passed
32–0
Jun 7, 2017
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