D Rhode Island Senate · District 35

Sen. Bridget Valverde

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Session

Total votes

2,549

all sessions

Attendance

0%

1,399 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

2,341

voted in favor

Nay

64

voted against

Absent

1,399

missed votes

Total cast

2,549

across all sessions

Crossed party

46

votes against own party

This page

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 155

AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- SINGLE-USE PLASTIC STRAWS (Prohibits a food service establishment from providing a consumer with a single-use plastic straw, unless the consumer requests such a straw.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

May 4, 2021

SB 37

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

32–2

May 4, 2021

SB 681

AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- FREEWAYS (Eliminates the provision a person who solicits a ride in a motor vehicle or backs up a motor vehicle on a freeway is guilty of a misdemeanor. Adds $100 fine for advertising a motor vehicle for sale on a state highway to the schedule of violations.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

May 4, 2021

SB 706

AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- EXEMPTIONS (Includes the real and tangible personal property of St. John Baptist De La Salle Institute, d/b/a La Salle Academy, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island, on the list of properties exempt from taxation.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

May 4, 2021

SB 305

AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ALCOHOLISM (Requires the dept of behavioral healthcare/developmental disabilities/hospitals to coordinate with the DOH to propose revisions to chapter 1.10 and 10.1 of title 23, including updates and revisions of statutory language and evidence-based best practices.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

May 4, 2021

SB 318

AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD (Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

May 4, 2021

SB 518

AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS (Delineates the definitions of felony, misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

May 4, 2021

SB 676

AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - RESPONSIBILITY OF OWNERS OF RENTAL VEHICLES (Provides that violations of chapter 34 of title 31 pertaining to rental vehicles are civil violations subject to the jurisdiction of the Rhode Island traffic tribunal.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

May 4, 2021

SB 102

AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION -- EXEMPTIONS (Includes the real and tangible personal property of The Providence Community Health Centers, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island, on the list of properties exempt from taxation.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 27, 2021

SB 232

AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (Includes in the practice of physical therapy the ordering of diagnostic imaging (x-ray imaging) to be performed by other health care professionals.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

Apr 27, 2021