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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

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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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 589

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- VOTER REGISTRATION (Removes the requirement that party primary voters automatically change their party affiliation to that party and reduces from 90 to 30 days the time before an election that a non-candidate can change their affiliation.)

Yea

Passed

28–6

Jun 26, 2019

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

33–0

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

34–0

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

30–4

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

33–1

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

34–0

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

35–0

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

35–0

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

35–0

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

35–0

Jun 25, 2019