Senator • Democrat

Samuel Zurier

Rhode Island • District SD-003

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 41

Not Voting: 1

Yea: 1671

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Samuel Zurier

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Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.

Defines public-private partnerships and provide the framework to encourage the use of public-private partnerships for proposals for state purchases.

Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.

Provides that a school district could elect and choose to not spend money on any mandate that is not fully funded through the state education aid formula.

Establishes Medicaid fee-for-service reimbursement rates set by the general assembly as the rate floor for Medicaid managed care by home care, home nursing care and hospice providers licensed by the DOH and continue the EEOHH.

Exempts from property taxation, the real and tangible personal property of the Providence Preservation Society.

Establishes regulation by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and the regulating of fees.

Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.

Makes students in workforce-ready certificate programs at the Community College of Rhode Island eligible to receive the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship.

Permit the City of Providence a one-year levy cap for fiscal year 2026 not to exceed eight percent (8%).

Provides $4,000,000 to support comprehensive and effective afterschool, school vacation, summer learning and workforce development programs for students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12).

Authorizes the office of postsecondary commissioner to expand bilingual and dual language teacher certificates in urban schools through two scholarship programs for students and teachers, with eligibility requirements and donations.

Establishes a pilot program for a virtual reality learning platform to improve math skills for grades 6 through 12 STEM education.

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

Amends the definitions of a “pupil transportation vehicle” to a vehicle contrasted to seat not more than ten (10) passengers plus the operator, rather than the existing limit of eight (8) passengers.

Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of the Center for Southeast Asians.

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.

Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.

Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association.

Allows communities to increase their local share of hotel tax collection by an additional two percent (2%).

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.

Allows school bus drivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut who have a valid CDL license in good standing be exempt from the licensing requirements in Rhode Island to transport school children.

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.

Requires oil spill responsible fee from 5 cents to 10 cents. Funds to support climate change initiatives.

Mandates additional state education funding for the mental and behavioral health of students equal to 2% of the district’s total expenditures, and require those funds be used to hire staff such as school social workers, and behavioral specialists.

Creates an income-sensitive tiered subsidy program to ensure that home energy utility costs are affordable for eligible low-income households.

Establishes the process to provide a legal mechanism whereby a terminally ill patient may choose to end their life using medications prescribed by a physician.

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.

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