Representative • Democrat
Matthew Dawson
Rhode Island • District HD-065
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
26
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
96% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 24
Not Voting: 124
Other: 2
Yea: 1400
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Sponsored Bills
RI H6187•Introduced
Reduces the number of times the director of the lottery has to confer with the permanent joint committee on state lottery from nine (9) times per year to four (4) times per year or at the call of the chair and vice chair of the committee.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5645•Engrossed
Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5611•Engrossed
Requires the installation of universal changing stations in all newly constructed, reconstructed, or remodeled public buildings and places of public accommodation.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5524•Introduced
Includes the deputy chief of inspection and inspector within the provision of law related to retirement on service allowance relating to correctional officers.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5514•Engrossed
Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5436•Introduced
Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5222•Introduced
Establishes concurrent jurisdiction between the Rhode Island Family Court and the Federal Government for the purposes of adjudicating minors who have allegedly committed a crime while residing on a military installation located in Rhode Island.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5130•Introduced
Crime gun ballistic evidence to be submitted to NIBIN.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5893•Engrossed
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.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5513•Enrolled
Implements a thirty (30) day waiting period following the issuance of a learners permit and the waiting period must expire before the person is permitted to take the road test in order to obtain a full license.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5265•Introduced
Defines the apportionment of financial responsibilities for expenses and improvements to the real property of the life estate between the life tenant and remainder man.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5188•Introduced
Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. It also adds civil monetary penalties for violations of those laws.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5644•Engrossed
Provides penalties for second and subsequent violations of installing and possessing a vehicle with sun screening materials in violation of this section.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5563•Engrossed
Requires hotel employees and short-term rental property operators to annually receive human trafficking awareness training.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5714•Engrossed
Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5475•Introduced
Exempts new or used bicycles from sale and use tax.
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 H5989•Introduced
Provides for a two-point three percent (2.3%) increase of provider reimbursement rates for intellectual and developmental disabilities commencing October 1, 2025.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5687•Introduced
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.
Primary Sponsor
RI H5526•Introduced
Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to fund the Thundermist family medicine residency program during fiscal year 2026 and every fiscal year thereafter.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5320•Introduced
Prohibits the Rhode Island medical assistance program and managed care organizations that it contracts with from requiring prior authorization or step therapy protocol for a prescription of a nonpreferred anticonvulsant or antipsychotic.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5804•Engrossed
Amends the composition of the building code standards committee and would make several technical amendments relative to the building code office and would establish a state building code office within the office of state fire marshal.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5744•Introduced
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.
Co-Sponsor
RI H5283•Introduced
Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
Co-Sponsor
RI H6304•Introduced
Ensures public access to lead service lines to determine the existence of lead within the water connection. This act also ensures mitigation measures and replacement lines are consistent with the current version of 40 C.C.R. 141 Subpart I.
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
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