Representative • Independent

Jon Brien

Rhode Island • District HD-049

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

67% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 59

Not Voting: 129

Yea: 1261

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Permits retired superior court magistrates to be assigned to perform service pursuant to §§ 8-2-11.1, 8-2-39, 8-2-39.1 or 8-2-39.2 and be reemployed by the superior court without any forfeiture or reduction of any retirement benefits.

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.

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.

Removes language that requires the department of elementary and secondary education to prorate funds to school districts in certain situations and eliminate funding for certain programs.

Reduces the appropriation to Medicaid managed care in fiscal year 2025-2026 in order to increase the rates for Medicaid nursing facilities.

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.

Makes offenses against gift card holders subject to the penalties for larceny.

Establishes the Rhode Island Bid Rigging Act.

Establishes a system to publicly disseminate emergency alerts regarding a missing adult with an intellectual disability.

Adds a rebuttable defense if any person shall die or sustain a personal injury while committing robbery of the owner, lessor, or occupant of a motor vehicle and that the owner or occupant of the vehicle acted in self-defense.

Provides a rebuttable defense if a person dies or sustains a personal injury while committing any violent criminal offense of a person.

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

Requires all out-of-state foster care placement facilities be registered with Medicaid as a Medicaid provider.

Increases the membership of the state crime laboratory commission from five (5) to nine (9). The overseer and co-executive secretaries of the commission have been changed to the deans of URI's colleges of pharmacy and engineering.

Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.

Provides that a family eligible for cash assistance pursuant to § 40-5.2-11, shall if qualified, be provided SNAP benefits.

Creates a bail task force to study the need of monetary conditions of bail and to consider other methods for ensuring an accused’s appearance in court, enhance public safety and honor the presumption of innocence.

Redefines "political party" and defines and distinguishes between "major parties" and "minor parties" based on the total number of votes a party's candidate received in the previous election.

Provides that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or guardian of a student, and the parent or legal guardian shall consent to the teaching of such sexual education curriculum.

Categorizes women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity for purpose of organized sports.

Requires the DOH and the EOHHS to collaborate with community health centers to establish new programs designed to attract federal funds, with a focus on the utilization of Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education programs.

Requires every public school to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.

Makes certain personal watercraft violations a misdemeanor.

Prohibits the distribution, transfer, or possession of any material that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Increases minimum sentence for first degree sexual assault and provides first 10 years of a sentence for first degree sexual assault not be subject to a suspension or deferment of sentence.

Allows that public records stored in a computer system, upon request, be provided at no charge.

Provides that fees for costs charged for search, retrieval or copying of public records shall be waived for members of the general assembly who certify that they are acting in their official capacity.

Extends the sunset provision allowing retired teachers to substitute teach for up to 180 days from June 20, 2025 until July 1, 2026.

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