Representative • Democrat

Lauren Carson

Rhode Island • District HD-075

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 60

Not Voting: 148

Other: 4

Yea: 2004

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Sponsored Bills

RI H5723•Introduced

Requires any state agency that prints more than fifty (50) copies of a contract, publication, brochure, notice, or promotional material to use state-owned or operated print shop capable of processing the material.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5731•Introduced

Authorizes driver education schools to offer the driver training curriculum in a classroom setting or an instructor-led virtual format.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5484•Engrossed

Increases the penalties for public utilities for violations of the general law governing the duties of utilities and carriers.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5310•Introduced

Restructures the Rhode Island Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, increases its membership to 15 members, 11 of whom are to be from the general public and reallocates the percentage of the funds for housing, conservation and other goals.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5185•Engrossed

Prohibits the use of service agreements that are unfair to an owner of residential real estate who enters into such an agreement or to persons who may become owners of that real estate in the future.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5121•Engrossed

Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and the regulating of fees.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6365•Introduced

Imposes a fifty cent delivery fee (tax) per transaction for deliveries in the state.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5844•Engrossed

Requires quarterly testing of biosolids for PFAS contaminants by those seeking to apply biosolids to lands, with subsequent reports to the department of environmental management.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6346•Introduced

Amends the Identity Theft Protection Act by eliminating current definitions and establishing new definitions. This act also raises the penalty provisions for violations.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5299•Introduced

Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5188•Introduced

Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. It also adds civil monetary penalties for violations of those laws.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5376•Engrossed

Allows for a special RI license plate to raise awareness for colon cancer. The plate would be designed by the partnership to reduce cancer in RI. The fees for the plate would be divided equally between the general fund and the partnership not-for-profit.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5312•Engrossed

Establishes a process by which vacancies in a municipal election office and local canvassing board are filled.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5079•Introduced

Adds to those persons exempt from payment of parking fees at any recreational facility owned and operated by the state those individuals determined by the executive office of HHS, or its designee, to be disabled for purposes of Medicaid eligibility.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6350•Introduced

Allows communities to increase their local share of hotel tax collection by an additional two percent (2%).

Co-Sponsor

RI H6006•Introduced

Submits the state's 2025 capital development program requesting the issuance of general obligation bonds totaling twenty five million dollars ($25,000,000) for approval of the electorate at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5738•Introduced

Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers who convert their gas-powered vehicle into a vehicle propelled by an alternative fuel source.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6236•Introduced

Amends the composition of school bus districts within the state to provide transportation to students in grades kindergarten through 12.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6088•Introduced

Permits a certified foot care nurse or a certified foot care specialist, to provide certain at-home foot care, including routine foot and nail care including nail clipping.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5984•Introduced

Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5527•Introduced

Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health needs of children and youth ages 2 to 21. DCYF to oversee implementation of the program.

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 H5981•Introduced

Establishes a new categorical funding category for civics education.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5744•Introduced

Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for students and teachers, with eligibility requirements and donations.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5282•Introduced

Amend the calculation of state funding provided to local education agencies for special education services.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5200•Introduced

Directs the DHS and the department of education to work collaboratively to sustain and strengthen existing workforce development and compensation programs for educators working in licensed child care and early learning programs statewide.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5199•Introduced

Establishes guidelines for continued implementation and expansion of public, high-quality kindergarten education programs.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6276•Introduced

Creates the resilient Rhode Island property resilience act.

Primary Sponsor

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