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D Rhode Island Senate · District 36

Sen. James C. Sheehan

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Total votes
1,199
all sessions
Attendance
-
of floor votes
With party
98%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
184
bills & resolutions
Lower than 78% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
1,199 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
1,125
voted in favor
Nay
22
voted against
Absent
0
missed votes
Total cast
1,199
across all sessions
Crossed party
12
votes against own party
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Vote
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SB 104
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION - SOCIAL SERVICES (Defines and declares the purpose of child opportunity zones and would provide for annual reporting from the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to the general assembly on each zone.)
Yea
Passed
29–0
Jun 1, 2017
SB 577
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Amends the definition of health care facility to allow a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital to own and operate ambulatory-care facilities.)
Yea
Passed
29–0
Jun 1, 2017
SB 273
AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES (Places time requirements on the implementation of projects authorized by the state traffic commission excluding geometric improvements, roundabouts and new signals.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 384
AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY (Eliminates rent abatement as a penalty in case where a non-resident landlord does not designate an agent for service of process.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 850
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE I-195 REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2011 (Requires the I-195 commission to conduct training for new commission members which would include training in ethics. It makes the commission subject to the open meetings acts, the access to public records acts and their exemptions.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 22
AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS (Requires the assessment to examine the status of each school building's safety be completed by November 1 of the year mandated.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 794
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Gives local boards discretion to designate times and places where optical scan voting equipment and sample ballots are exhibited for instructional purposes.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 802
AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - CONDUCT OF ELECTION AND VOTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES (Requires that election supplies furnished by the board of elections would be delivered to or picked up by the proper officer as determined by the board no later than twelve o'clock p.m. (12:00 p.m.) on the day before the election.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 661
AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - IDENTIFICATION AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS (Provides that any applicant for employment or volunteer activity of a religious organization, undergo a national background check at the request of said religious organization, as a condition of employment.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
SB 894
AN ACT RELATING TO THE TOWN OF WEST WARWICK - RATIFICATION OF CHARTER AMENDMENTS (Validates and ratifies amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of West Warwick, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of West Warwick on May 19, 2016.)
Yea
Passed
31–0
May 31, 2017
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