Representative • Democrat

Jennifer Stewart

Rhode Island • District HD-059

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 70

Not Voting: 28

Other: 1

Yea: 1350

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Sponsored Bills

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 H6210•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5978•Introduced

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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5984•Introduced

Establishes the medical primary care scholarship program to be administered by the commissioner of postsecondary education.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5979•Introduced

Requires a review by the department of elementary and secondary education of the formula components used to compute the aid needed to support high need students.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5991•Introduced

Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5990•Introduced

Extends eligibility for lactation counselor services to RIte Start recipients starting October 1, 2025, through the end of their 12 month postpartum period, with coverage provided regardless of federal financial participation.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5771•Introduced

Mandates Medicaid coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5742•Introduced

Establishes a statewide “Healthy School Meals for all” universal school breakfast and lunch program in Rhode Island public schools phased in over 3 years.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5463•Introduced

Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Primary 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.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6071•Introduced

This pilot program would create a $3,000 trust for each Rhode Island child ages zero to one year born to a family enrolled in the Rhode Island Works Program (“RI Works”) during the preceding calendar year.

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 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 H5993•Introduced

Commences July 1, 2025, this act would eliminate the provision of this section that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their criminal background checks.

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 H5384•Engrossed

Increases from 7 days to 9 days the period of time in which a request for a recount of the votes cast can be made to the board of elections and no certificates of election may be issued until the recount, if any, is completed.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5836•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5841•Introduced

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race by expanding the definition of race to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protected hairstyles.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5888•Introduced

Provides that a defendant's third and subsequent violation of domestic violence offenses, including both prior felony and misdemeanor convictions, would be punishable as a felony.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5866•Engrossed

Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a sixty-day (60) supply may be dispensed at any one time.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5523•Introduced

Requires public bodies to offer translation services for all open meetings of said bodies.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5125•Introduced

Permits the family court to award custody of household pets to the plaintiff in a domestic abuse complaint, including the enforcement remedy of a restraining order or other injunctive relief.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5112•Introduced

Requires the department of education to develop and make available for use in all schools a mental health curriculum. School districts would be required to provide four (4) hours of mental health instruction to seventh grade students.

Co-Sponsor

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