Total votes
2,549
all sessions
Attendance
0%
1,399 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 80% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
0%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 87% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,242
bills & resolutions
Higher than 88% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
2,549 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
2,509
voted in favor
Nay
36
voted against
Absent
1,399
missed votes
Total cast
2,549
across all sessions
Crossed party
10
votes against own party
This page
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matching current filters
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.)
Other
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.)
Other
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.)
Other
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
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