Senator • Democrat

Lammis Vargas

Rhode Island • District SD-028

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

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Not Voting: 3

Other: 1

Yea: 123

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Lammis Vargas

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Includes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday as a holiday.

Provides recommended air quality standards for schools. Further requires the department of education incorporate indoor air quality testing as part of the school building authority needs assessment.

Repeals the gross earnings tax on electric and gas companies.

Prohibits any city, town, quasi-municipal corporation or public corporation from assessing any existing agricultural operation or agricultural land any water impact fee, excepting base useable charges.

Imposes a hospital licensing fee for fiscal year 2026 against net patient-services revenue of every non-government owned hospital for the hospital’s first fiscal year ending on or after January 1, 2024.

Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit.

Authorizes an increase in resource eligibility limits for persons with long-term-care needs who reside at home and requires semi-annual reports from Medicaid certified assisted living facilities and adult day service providers to the EOHHS.

Includes payment of social security benefits to the modification reducing federal adjusted gross income on personal income taxes.

Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and excepts in connection with a right to pass with carriages, to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.

Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.

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.

Authorizes and empower the department of transportation to plant pollinator friendly native species of trees, shrubs, grasses and plants within limits of a roadway, including state highways.

Increases the per page transcription fees for court reporters in court proceedings.

Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.

Establishes a housing land bank program with the goal of creating affordable housing in the State of Rhode Island. The housing land bank would have the authority to buy, receive and hold property in furtherance of this goal.

Clarifies the role of a corporation electing to be governed as a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.

Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for violation.

Prohibits payments in lieu of pension benefits to person employed more than ninety (90) days.

Requires the state investment commission to create a capital access initiative to expand potential investment opportunities for the state’s pension fund and engage qualified but traditionally underrepresented investment managers.

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.

Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.

Creates a public education program on methods to recycle textiles.

Requires that all monies received from the payment of fines under the Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking be deposited into the into the violent crimes indemnity account within the general fund.

Allows the city of Providence to adopt higher rates for the marginal value of residential property in excess of $1,000,000 per dwelling. Taxpayers below a certain income level may be exempt and additional revenue would be exempt.

Bills nonprofit colleges and universities in the city of Providence for municipal services if they do not reach a memorandum of agreement with the city for increased payments.

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

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

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.

Establishes Compost Fund to award grants related to reducing the amount of solid waste generated in the state.

Authorizes the Providence city council to set the veterans tax exemption limit to an amount determined by the city council via ordinance or resolution.

Requires state use actual residences of persons in government custody for redistricting purposes. Information would be collected by the department of corrections and forwarded to the division of statewide planning, to be utilized for redistricting.

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