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D Rhode Island Senate · District 6

Sen. Harold M. Metts

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Total votes

1,199

all sessions

Attendance

97%

30 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

98%

of cast votes

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

1,136

voted in favor

Nay

33

voted against

Absent

30

missed votes

Total cast

1,199

across all sessions

Crossed party

19

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

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Date

SB 2400

AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE (Allows pregnant women with an annual family income above applicable Medicaid income limit to be eligible to purchase health insurance through one of the Medicaid managed care plans.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2413

AN ACT RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES -- ZONING ORDINANCES (Amends the "building height" definition in chapter 24 of title 45 (zoning ordinances) for property in special flood hazard areas. The building height would be measured from the base flood elevation.)

Yea

Passed

32–2

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2208

AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- INSURANCE BENEFITS (Entitles correctional officers with twenty-five (25) years of service and who are at least fifty-five (55) years of age to a non-Medicare-eligible retiree health care insurance benefit.)

Yea

Passed

33–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2683

AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES - ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Establishes the Rhode Island chapter of the children’s advocacy center, a community based organization that would provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location from which a multidisciplinary team would act in response to child abuse allegations.)

Yea

Passed

35–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2862

AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY (Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.)

Yea

Passed

35–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2947

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS - SCHEDULING (Establish a uniform election day for all local and special elections.)

Yea

Passed

35–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2855

AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND EDUCATION (Temporarily expands incentives to enhance the school housing aid ratio to encourage new school and renovation projects.)

Yea

Passed

34–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2145

AN ACT RELATING TO PROPERTY -- ELECTRONIC RECORDING (Authorizes a city or town clerk/recorder of deeds, at the clerk's/recorder's option, to accept electronic documents for recording real property and land records and to index and store those documents.)

Yea

Passed

35–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2859

AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - STEP THERAPY PROTOCOL (Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for prescription drugs and use step therapy protocols.)

Yea

Passed

35–0

Jun 19, 2018

SB 2688

AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES - AUTOMATED SCHOOL-ZONE-SPEED-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM (Requires the use of yellow, flashing school zone speed signs and require written warning citations for first offenses, a fine up to forty-five dollars ($45) for second offenses and referral to the traffic tribunal for all subsequent offenses.)

Yea

Passed

31–4

Jun 19, 2018