Representative • Democrat

David Morales

Rhode Island • District HD-007

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 106

Not Voting: 131

Other: 7

Yea: 1891

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6244•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H6045•Introduced

Mandates public schools (K-12) have one full-time certified social worker for every 250 students and allocates $2 million in the fiscal year 2025 budget for school districts and municipalities to hire additional social workers.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5988•Introduced

Requires the EOHHS to amend the state Medicaid plan and secure sufficient state general revenue to increase Medicaid payment rates to an amount equal to one hundred thirty percent (130%) of Medicare rates for outpatient clinical pediatric services.

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 H5782•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5649•Introduced

Gives statewide juvenile hearing boards the authority to refer a juvenile offender to a rehabilitative driving course, as part of a disposition of an offense before the board. The order may be enforced by the traffic tribunal.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5736•Introduced

Permits reimbursement for dental hygienist's from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5743•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5745•Introduced

Reduces the time, from three (3) years to six (6) months, required for a nonimmigrant foreign national student, who has resided in Rhode Island, to be eligible to pay the same in-state tuition as any other Rhode Island student.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5775•Introduced

Requires EOHHS to establish a 1-year pilot program for nutritional assistance and medically tailored meals, groceries and produce for peoples with diet-related diseases or food insecurity, and other interventions where there is a clinical need.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5751•Introduced

Provides that a student's enrollment in Medicaid would be included in calculating and determining the student success factor for use in the foundation education-aid formula.

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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 H5400•Introduced

Requires that the state's share to public libraries be fixed at twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount appropriated by the city or town in their budgets for fiscal year 2026.

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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.

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RI H6112•Introduced

Requires all entities delegated eminent domain powers under this section to adopt a plan and approval prior to exercising such power for a public purpose.

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RI H6106•Introduced

Requires certain landlords to obtain insurance to cover alternate living accommodations for displaced tenants due to fire or disaster.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6073•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6072•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5611•Introduced

Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5361•Introduced

Requires law enforcement agencies to obtain search warrants for electronic information, data, location information and other identifying information of subscribers and customers, except in specified circumstances.

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 H6256•Introduced

Repeals the property tax and sales and use tax exemption for boats.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6255•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5836•Introduced

Would require every high school to offer a yearlong “ethnic studies” course.

Primary 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 H5488•Introduced

Creates the School Libraries Act.

Co-Sponsor

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