Representative • Democrat

Jose Batista

Rhode Island • District HD-012

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

95% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 70

Not Voting: 408

Other: 12

Yea: 1731

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Sponsored Bills

RI H5550•Engrossed

Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5171•Engrossed

Extends the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers for two (2) years to March 1, 2028.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6272•Engrossed

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Amos House, provided it remains a qualified tax-exempt corporation pursuant to §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5311•Engrossed

Allows the board of elections to tabulate mail ballots in local special elections in the same manner as in tabulate mail ballots in statewide elections.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5512•Engrossed

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of PROJECT Weber/RENEW, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6128•Introduced

Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system, to be administered by the director of the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5822•Engrossed

Creates a taskforce to provide recommendations, advice and guidance to help expedite and provide technical assistance with regard to the development of solar energy systems on property owned by the state.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5982•Introduced

Provides funding to establish a dual language program within the department of elementary and secondary education. It also describe how to implement he Support and Access to Bilingual Education “SABE Act” for all Local Education Agencies “LEA” recipients.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5398•Introduced

Revises the calculation for the student success factor in the education-aid formula by adding an additional multiplier.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5285•Introduced

Authorizes a host city or town to impose a two percent (2%) tax on the endowment of a private institution of higher education that is in excess of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000), to be used only for the host public school district.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5534•Introduced

Exempts certain urban and small farmers from sales taxes, real, tangible and personal property taxes and income taxes. This act would also define urban and small farmers and urban farmland.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5316•Introduced

Establishes the Housing Flexible Spending Account Act of 2025 allowing Rhode Island employers to contribute pre-tax income into a housing flexible spending account (H-FSA), for employees to be used for qualified housing expenses.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6010•Introduced

Allows the city of Providence to impose an additional conveyance tax of three quarters of one percent (0.75%) on sale of any real property in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000).

Co-Sponsor

RI H5473•Introduced

Creates an additional tax rate of 3% on taxable income over $625,000 in 2025 dollars. Applies to tax years 2026 and thereafter and not retroactively.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5649•Engrossed

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 H5427•Engrossed

Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.

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 H6287•Introduced

Requires statements as to whether a bill is likely to increase equity, decrease equity or have no impact on equity to be included on up to 20 pieces of legislation.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5904•Introduced

Provides that evidence of life or work expectancy shall be based on statistical data using blended statistics and shall not be based on race, ethnicity or sex.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5462•Introduced

Provides that the early intervention program for developmentally disabled infants be under the jurisdiction of the executive office of health and human services (EOHHS).

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 H5836•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5835•Introduced

Enables the Providence School Board to authorize local school-based councils to enhance communication between the board and the individual schools.

Co-Sponsor

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