Representative • Republican

Sherry Roberts

Rhode Island • District HD-029

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

70% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 420

Not Voting: 270

Other: 9

Yea: 1530

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Creates a special registration plate for the private passenger motor vehicle for former fire chief of the Hopkins Hill Fire District, Frank M. Brown, Jr.

Repeals the act authorizing toll facilities on state roads.

Requires that all maintenance of sidewalks along state highways, with the exception of snow and ice removal, be the responsibility of the state.

Requires DCYF to establish segregated savings account for foster care child receiving SS, SSI, veterans benefits or railroad retirement benefits to manage the accounts and keep child eligible for future benefits.

Creates a special license plate for the charity Real Access Motivates Progress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Requires 10% of all rental fees collected by the water resources board pursuant to a lease with the Coventry Pines Golf Club be paid to the town of Coventry and 10% to the Central Coventry Fire District.

Allows an income tax credit for employer contributions to an eligible employee's ABLE account, for a maximum credit of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per employee, per year.

Dictates the length a search warrant involving a tracking device would be valid and provide a process to extend the time frame of the tracking device for good cause.

Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.

IN AMENDMENT OF PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION A.D. 1942 ENTITLED "INCORPORATE THE WESTERN COVENTRY FIRE DISTRICT"

Requires all out-of-state foster care placement facilities be registered with Medicaid as a Medicaid provider.

Provides that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or guardian of a student, and the parent or legal guardian shall consent to the teaching of such sexual education curriculum.

Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.

Requires the DOH and the EOHHS to collaborate with community health centers to establish new programs designed to attract federal funds, with a focus on the utilization of Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education programs.

Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.

Allows that public records stored in a computer system, upon request, be provided at no charge.

Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capacity.

Creates "Harter's Law" to extend the civil statute of limitations, for injuries resulting from first degree child abuse, to thirty-five (35) years.

Authorizes the town council of West Greenwich to provide an exemption and/or stabilization of tax agreement on qualified property used for residential purposes inclusive of low- and moderate-income housing in the town of West Greenwich.

Requires state law enforcement agencies to honor all detainer request from DHS and ICE.

Repeals pet care services from the service subject to sales tax as defined by §§ 44-18-7(19) and 44-18-7.3(b)(3).

Prohibits a person under the age of sixteen (16) from being in a rideshare vehicle such as Uber or Lyft alone.

Provides duties/obligations of medical personnel to born-alive infants resulting from an abortion punishable as a felony along with a civil action for compensatory/punitive damages/automatic one year license suspension.

Criminalizes the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive as a felony.

Provides that all extended benefits offered by DCYF to foster children shall be extended to children placed in guardianship.

Provides that any person eighteen (18) years of age who is issued a license or permit may carry a stun gun.

Provides that enhanced penalties for possession of fentanyl shall only be applicable if the substance contains \ at least ten percent (10%) of fentanyl or its analogs.

Repeals authorizing Rhode Island to join an interstate compact, which would allow Presidents and Vice Presidents to be elected by a national popular vote rather than the electoral college.

Redefines “farm” by reducing the amount of revenue from farm products required to be sold from ten thousand ($10,000) to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500).

Prohibits any person mandating a COVID-19 vaccination without providing individual exemptions that allow a person to opt out of such mandate.

Requires verification of an applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license number or state identification number on all applications seeking mail ballots and emergency mail ballots.

Requires verification of an applicant's date of birth and either a Rhode Island driver's license number or state identification number on all applications seeking mail ballots and emergency mail ballots.

Eliminates any limits restricting the harvesting of blue crabs in the state.

Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations.

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