Representative • Democrat

Matthew Dawson

Rhode Island • District HD-065

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 24

Not Voting: 117

Other: 2

Yea: 1320

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6275•Introduced

Includes an individual who is seventy-five (75) years of age or older with a combined disability rating of fifty percent (50%), as eligible for disabled veterans license plates.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6209•Introduced

Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee’s overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2026.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6048•Introduced

Effective 7/1/2026, the state lottery division of gaming stops renewing any existing sports wagering vendor contract. Prior to the expiration of any existing contracts the division shall issue an open invitation for applicants for sports wagering vendors.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6049•Introduced

Increases fees paid to jurors to fifty dollars ($50.00) per day.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5960•Introduced

Allows for a qualified abandonment of public town roads which grants a public easement over said road allowing it to be converted to walking, biking, and hiking trails and access to parks, nature preserves and other recreational facilities.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5973•Introduced

Prohibits the state from seeking reimbursement for expenditures made on behalf of disabled Rhode Islanders from an ABLE account after death of the designated beneficiary.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5746•Introduced

Relieves East Providence from providing any educational/financial resources to children in the CRAFT program or other Bradley Hospital programs. Requires the school district of origin where the student was last registered to bear this responsibility.

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 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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5280•Introduced

Establishes the Higher Education Opportunities for Students with Disabilities Act.

Co-Sponsor

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5203•Introduced

Directs the department of education to develop and adopt regulations for energy capable school buildings.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6229•Introduced

Establishes the Rhode Island state crime laboratory within the department of attorney general.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6211•Introduced

Requires persons convicted of driving under influence or refusal to submit to chemical test, have an ignition interlock system installed in vehicle as part of sentence and to pay an assessment to pay for the interlock systems.

Co-Sponsor

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 H5884•Introduced

Exempts members of the Rhode Island judiciary from the restrictions on nontransparent windshields and windows in their motor vehicles.

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 H5899•Engrossed

Adds five (5) driving violations to the statute that defines aggressive driving.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5645•Introduced

Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. § 529 from judicial attachment.

Primary 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 H5714•Introduced

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 H5514•Engrossed

Exempts emergency mail ballots from the requirement to have certain wording regarding "mail voters" on the ballot.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5390•Introduced

Establishes VICTIM Fund grant program to support nonprofit organizations providing victim services in Rhode Island with the state allocating $30,000,000 per year to fund the program and staffing within the department of public safety.

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 H5174•Introduced

Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a seven (7) member board of licensure.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6238•Introduced

Effective January 1, 2025, an annual cost-of-living increase, based upon the yearly Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U), to the retirement allowance for all state employees and all beneficiaries to be reinstated.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5893•Introduced

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 H5707•Introduced

Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.

Co-Sponsor

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