Representative • Democrat

Teresa Tanzi

Rhode Island • District HD-034

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

95% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 90

Not Voting: 381

Other: 4

Yea: 1648

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6210•Introduced

Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6045•Introduced

Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the fiscal year 2025 budget for school districts and municipalities to hire additional social workers.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6047•Introduced

Mandates all health insurance contracts from January 1, 2026, to cover FDA-approved contraceptives, sterilization, contraception counseling, follow-up services, and a twelve-month supply for Medicaid recipients.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5960•Introduced

Allows for a qualified abandonment of public town roads which grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to walking, biking, and hiking trails and access to parks, nature preserves and other recreational facilities.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5973•Introduced

Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after death of the designated beneficiary.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5988•Introduced

Requires the EOHHS to amend the state Medicaid plan and secure sufficient state general revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates to an amount equal to one hundred thirty percent (130%) of Medicare rates for outpatient clinical pediatric services.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5747•Introduced

Enhances and further define the role of the board of trustees of the University of Rhode Island.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5745•Introduced

Reduces the time, from three (3) years to six (6) months, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5526•Introduced

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5463•Introduced

Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Co-Sponsor

RI H5461•Introduced

Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediPRN and MomsPRN.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5399•Introduced

Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5400•Introduced

Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2026.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6165•Introduced

Creates the PURPLE alert state system to aid in the search for a missing adult with a serious physical, behavioral health, neurological disabilities or medical condition.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6071•Introduced

This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6072•Introduced

Establishes a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5993•Introduced

Commences July 1, 2025, this act would eliminate the provision of this section that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their criminal background checks.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5462•Introduced

Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be under the jurisdiction of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS).

Primary Sponsor

RI H5361•Introduced

Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5384•Engrossed

Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be issued until the recount, if any, is completed.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6166•Introduced

Creates a new law to address the issue of "sexual harassment" involving those individuals that are actively involved in legislative business.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5488•Introduced

Creates the School Libraries Act.

Co-Sponsor

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