Representative • Democrat

June Speakman

Rhode Island • District HD-068

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 68

Not Voting: 26

Yea: 2127

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June Speakman

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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.

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

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

Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.

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

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

Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.

Includes boats and marine-related assets in the blanket permit available for overweight or over-dimensional vehicles.

Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.

Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 ("commercial sexual activity"). It would also allow the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this chapter.

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.

Authorizes the establishment of a Rhode Island housing champion designation program and makes qualified municipalities eligible to receive preferential access to state resources, including discretionary state infrastructure funds, as available.

Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.

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.

Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027.

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

Authorizes municipalities to impose a ticket tax on ticket sales for venues large enough to hold at least eight hundred (800) patrons, seated, of two dollars ($2) per ticket. The tax shall be redistributed to the locality where the venue is located.

Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction.

Establishes that a renewable energy resource shall pay $5.00 per kilowatt of alternating current nameplate capacity for tangible property and $3.50 per kilowatt of alternating nameplate capacity for real property.

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.

Renames the East Bay Bike Path Bridge, located in the Town of Warren, the Cpl. Richard C. Brule Bridge.

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

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.

Permits hit and run victims suffering serious bodily injury to recover under the crime victim compensation program.

Repeals provisions that assess costs for women in the community corrections program for women offenders.

Under certain circumstances, provides immunity from arrest and prosecution for prostitution, procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, loitering for prostitution and soliciting from motor vehicles for indecent purposes.

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.

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

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.

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

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