Total votes
2,549
all sessions
Attendance
0%
1,399 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
90%
of cast votes
Lower than 98% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
5%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 88% of chamber peers
Sponsored
614
bills & resolutions
Lower than 92% of chamber peers
Committees
1
assignment
2,549 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
2,297
voted in favor
Nay
241
voted against
Absent
1,399
missed votes
Total cast
2,549
across all sessions
Crossed party
236
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 59
AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT - STATEWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY COMPUTER AIDED RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (Establishes a statewide public safety computer aided records management system.) Against party
Nay
Passed
31–3
May 11, 2021
SB 412
AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES -- ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (Requires the department of children, youth and families to report all suspected cases of child sexual abuse to the children's advocacy center.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 11, 2021
SB 264
AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE ELDER ADULT FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION PREVENTION ACT (Requires employees of regulated financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of elder adults to the office of healthy aging and provide authority to the regulated financial institution to place a temporary hold on transactions.)
Yea
Passed
32–0
May 11, 2021
SB 863
AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME (Removes the word “war” from the sentence “honorable discharged war veteran.”) Against party
Nay
Passed
30–4
May 11, 2021
SB 655
AN ACT RELATING TO WATERS AND NAVIGATION -- BRISTOL COUNTY WATER SUPPLY (Repeals Bristol county water supply’s and the state’s obligation to upgrade transmission lines, treatment facilities, reservoirs, and wells or upgrade them to conform to the Safe Drinking Water Act standards set forth by federal law.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 11, 2021
SB 679
AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 11, 2021
SB 863
AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE -- RHODE ISLAND VETERANS' HOME (Removes the word “war” from the sentence “honorable discharged war veteran.”)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 11, 2021
SB 607
AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THE PERMANENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING ACT (Extends the long-term air-quality monitoring program at T.F. Green Airport to July 31, 2024.)
Yea
Passed
34–0
May 11, 2021
SB 398
AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- MARRIAGE LICENSES (Repeals the provision of law granting minors the ability to obtain a marriage license, and would require a person to be of full legal age, at least eighteen (18) years of age to obtain a marriage license.)
Yea
Passed
33–0
May 11, 2021
SB 831
AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION -- LEVY AND ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL TAXES (Eliminates a duplication in the general laws by repealing one section of law that provided a tax levy and stabilization plan in the town of Burrillville.) Against party
Nay
Passed
33–1
May 11, 2021
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