Representative • Democrat

Susan Donovan

Rhode Island • District HD-069

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 59

Not Voting: 96

Other: 5

Yea: 2057

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6373•Introduced

Requires the executive office of health and human services to increase Medicaid payment rates for primary care services furnished by primary care providers to be commensurate with Medicare rates.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6369•Introduced

Allows the health care advocate to petition the superior court for the appointment of a receiver as deemed necessary or appropriate by the court.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6368•Introduced

Amends unfair discrimination statutes to encompass more protected categories and protects against additional forms of discrimination.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6036•Introduced

Mandates establishment of a support program for nurse practitioners similar to that which is offered for physicians. Additionally, it requires professional licensing and reporting reforms to protect clinicians who seek support.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5595•Introduced

Requires that every institution of higher education provide training in the administration of opioid antagonists to every staff member on the institution's campus.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5613•Engrossed

Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.

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.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5088•Introduced

Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5081•Engrossed

Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the National Guard and military reserves.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5882•Engrossed

Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5961•Engrossed

Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions", and would redefine child daycare centers as educational institutions.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5273•Engrossed

Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5633•Engrossed

Allows a pharmacist to dispense a one-time refill for certain medications for continuation of therapy to patients under certain circumstances.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5635•Engrossed

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 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.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5084•Engrossed

Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5281•Introduced

Creates the Rhode Island Childcare Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state’s childcare subsidy program and expands eligibility for the program to meet the federal eligibility benchmark.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5197•Introduced

Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligibility for child care assistance.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5196•Introduced

Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.

Co-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 H5776•Introduced

Directs the RITBA design a safety barrier or netting system on the several bridges within its authority. Any newly constructed bridges with a deck height of over one hundred feet (100 ft) would be required to have safety barriers of safety netting.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5470•Introduced

Submits 2026 capital development program requesting the issuance of $100,000,000 in general obligation bonds to the voters for approval at the November, 2026, general election.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5405•Introduced

Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes would be exempt from indirect cost recovery provisions.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6277•Introduced

Clarifies Wavemaker program eligibility to include all full-time Rhode Island medical practitioners.

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 H5996•Introduced

Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the health insurance coverage through the Rhode Island health benefits exchange.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5984•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

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