Representative • Democrat

Kathleen Fogarty

Rhode Island • District HD-035

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 73

Not Voting: 184

Other: 4

Yea: 1877

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Sponsored Bills

RI H5984•Introduced

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

Primary Sponsor

RI H5976•Introduced

Provides $4,000,000 to support comprehensive and effective afterschool, school vacation, summer learning and workforce development programs for students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12).

Co-Sponsor

RI H5844•Introduced

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 H5909•Introduced

Makes all causes of action based on sexual abuse or exploitation of a child not subject to any statute of limitations whether the claim has lapsed or was previously time-barred.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5771•Introduced

Mandates Medicaid coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5747•Introduced

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

Primary 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.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5529•Introduced

Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.

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 H5204•Introduced

Allows an individual school district that can utilize its own buses or vendors at a lower cost than the statewide system, to obtain reimbursement for these costs from state funds.

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 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 H5731•Introduced

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

Primary Sponsor

RI H5557•Introduced

Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5194•Introduced

Increases the income range up to $50,000 and tax credit up to $850, for elderly and disabled persons who own or rent their homes.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5857•Introduced

Creates the reproductive freedom and gender affirming care health data privacy act.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5635•Introduced

Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5630•Introduced

Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5496•Introduced

Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5488•Introduced

Creates the School Libraries Act.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5120•Introduced

Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5888•Introduced

Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, would be punishable as a felony.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5893•Introduced

Requires the electronic filing of domestic violence/sexual assault forms by law enforcement agencies, and enhances the information to be included on the reporting forms.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5866•Engrossed

Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a sixty-day (60) supply may be dispensed at any one time.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5763•Introduced

Allows any retired member of the state retirement system to serve as a member of the state labor relations board.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5472•Introduced

Increases monthly minimum benefit for a spouse, domestic partner, former spouse. Grant a 2.89% COLA for eligible retirees. Provided a modification reducing federal AGI for public pension benefits from the RI employees retirement system.

Co-Sponsor

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