Representative • Democrat

Karen Alzate

Rhode Island • District HD-060

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 58

Not Voting: 206

Other: 13

Yea: 1865

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Karen Alzate

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Allows the collection of solid waste and recycling between the hours of seven o’clock (7:00) am and three o’clock (3:00) am seven days a week. It would also ban the use of mobile waste compaction technology for recycling.

Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.

Provides that statements by a health care provider regarding the unanticipated outcome of a patient's medical care and treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability or as evidence of an admission.

Mandates all health insurance contracts from January 1, 2026, to cover FDA-approved contraceptives, sterilization, contraception counseling, follow-up services, and a twelve-month supply for Medicaid recipients.

Provides that in local educational agencies when over 45% of the children have a family income that is at or below 185% of federal poverty guidelines then the student success factor will be 50% by the core instruction per-pupil amount.

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

Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.

Removes language that requires the department of elementary and secondary education to prorate funds to school districts in certain situations and eliminate funding for certain programs.

Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.

Extends eligibility for lactation counselor services to RIte Start recipients starting October 1, 2025, through the end of their 12 month postpartum period, with coverage provided regardless of federal financial participation.

Includes municipal detention facility corporations as exempt from taxation, and requires that an amount equal to 27% of all tax that would have been collected if the property was taxable be paid to the municipality annually.

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

Extends teacher certifications without fee or penalty for three (3) or five (5) years for teachers who hold certifications as of July 1, 2025.

Amends provisions related to the legislative purpose for alternatives within the public school system.

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

This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.

Allows RI to opt out of the provisions of DIDMCA exempting out of state lenders from interest rate limits which apply to RI lenders. Prevents evasion of statutory interest rate limits and lending rules for loans made in RI.

Changes annual reporting requirements for the state’s family home-visiting program and also impacts appropriation and spending of funds in order to access maximum federal funding for these programs.

Establishes a child tax credit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per dependent.

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.

Provides for the licensure and operation of mobile cosmetology and barber services.

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

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

Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.

Authorizes the city of Central Falls, via home rule charter or city ordinance, to create a school board with all powers and duties thereto, to govern the Central Falls school district.

Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.

Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.

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.

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.

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