Senator • Republican

Thomas Paolino

Rhode Island • District SD-017

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

74% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 214

Not Voting: 119

Other: 5

Yea: 1296

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Sponsored Bills

RI S0627•Introduced

Establishes regulations to ensure the ethical development, integration, and deployment of high-risk AI systems, particularly those influencing consequential decisions.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0574•Introduced

Provides that a hearing required before a judge or magistrate may adjudge a motorist in contempt for failure to comply with the court's orders regarding a conditional hardship license, and defines penalties for violation of a hardship/interlock order.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0500•Introduced

Provides that water utility companies be responsible for all costs associated with maintenance, operation and delivery of water pumping stations to individual parcels of land and schools with no pumping stations on the property.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0503•Introduced

Create a process to establish a low- or moderate-income housing that exceeds sixty (60) units.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0570•Introduced

Establishes a speed limit for school buses being driven on a limited access highway to ten miles per hour (10mph) less than the posted speed limit.

Primary Sponsor

RI S0095•Introduced

Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under six thousand pounds (6,000 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0084•Introduced

Prohibits an insurance carrier from assessing a premium surcharge against an insured for making an inquiry regarding the terms of their policy.

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RI S0099•Introduced

Exempts the trade-in value of pickup trucks under eight thousand one hundred pounds (8,100 lbs.) gross weight, used exclusively for personal use, from sales tax.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0399•Introduced

Requires the executive climate change coordinating council to evaluate and make recommendations for the use of carbon emissions removal technology as an alternative to reducing carbon emissions and meeting climate goals.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0380•Introduced

Requires the public utilities commission (PUC) to produce a report by January 1, 2026 and each January 1 thereafter, on the ability for the current electric grid to handle the electrification load need to power cars, buildings, and heating of homes.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0832•Introduced

Permits continuation of instructor-led virtual instruction for drivers’ education for two-year period. Board of education required to provide report comparing test scores of virtual versus in-person instruction to house speaker and senate president.

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RI S0280•Engrossed

Replaces state marshals with capitol police as to those law enforcement officers being exempt from certain firearm restrictions.

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RI S0814•Introduced

Makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly file a false report of misconduct of any law enforcement official, public safety official, or hospital staff.

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RI S0377•Introduced

Establishes the “2025 Rhode Island Broadband Transparency and Consumer Protection Act."

Co-Sponsor

RI S0909•Introduced

Makes changes to the access to public records act, including clarifying various provisions, increasing the sanctions for knowing and willful violations of the law, and making certain traffic accident data and preferred license plate information public.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0773•Introduced

Provides that the school year for all public schools, including traditional public and public charter schools, independent charter schools, and mayoral academies, would start on the same date of each calendar year.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0558•Introduced

Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0561•Introduced

Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.

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RI S0136•Introduced

Criminalizes the unauthorized dissemination of sexually explicit images of another person that are created by digital devices or created without the consent of the person depicted.

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RI S0139•Introduced

Changes the community service requirements of a sentence related to the violation of § 11-44-21.1 relating to defacing private residences, offices, businesses or commercial property.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0090•Introduced

Permits and legalize the sale of raw milk.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0383•Introduced

Requires the director of the Rhode Island emergency management agency and the Rhode Island commerce commission to develop and implement a plan to assist businesses in obtaining flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance program.

Primary Sponsor

RI S0119•Introduced

Encourages and authorizes the department of health to adopt rules and regulations that lead to the more liberal utilization of buprenorphine.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0780•Introduced

Adds administrator of community confinement and the home confinement coordinator to the state retirement system.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0401•Introduced

Requires the department of transportation, in consultation with the department of environmental management also to conduct an environmental impact study of motor vehicle non-exhaust particle emissions.

Co-Sponsor

RI S0057•Engrossed

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

Co-Sponsor

RI S0388•Introduced

Expands the duties of the small business ombudsman, by also having the ombudsman serve as the Rhode Island commerce corporation's small business advocate.

Primary Sponsor

RI S0564•Introduced

Requires DCYF to submit a one-time, detailed report on the effectiveness of EBPs in keeping children out of foster care, providing valuable data on the programs' impact on high-risk families, reunification outcomes, and program availability.

Co-Sponsor

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