Representative • Democrat

Patricia Serpa

Rhode Island • District HD-027

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

96% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 82

Not Voting: 142

Other: 11

Yea: 2018

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6232•Engrossed

Amends Pawtucket property tax classification system.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6235•Introduced

Requires nonprofit, as a condition for requesting state funds from the general assembly, to submit & post on their website, a list of10 of their highest paid director, officer & employee salaries & any forms of compensation provided to those individuals.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6137•Introduced

Creates a special registration plate for the private passenger motor vehicle for former fire chief of the Hopkins Hill Fire District, Frank M. Brown, Jr.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5585•Introduced

Requires associations to provide unit owners within thirty (30) days notice of any increase in the deductible application to the association’s policy.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5637•Engrossed

Adds "debit cards" to the section of law relating to fraudulent use of credit cards.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5715•Engrossed

Requires the state retirement board to publish online all archived video or audio recordings and all future recordings of meetings of the board.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5586•Introduced

Creates process for condominium associations to give notice to and obtain approval from unit mortgage holders for certain association actions by mailing a written request for approval to the unit mortgagees via regular and certified mail.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5505•Engrossed

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5522•Introduced

Requires the rule adopting agency to send a copy of the certified rule to all members of the general assembly, within twenty (20) days of filing a final rule.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5156•Introduced

Provides that the “meetings” requirements from § 34-36.1-3.08 be applicable to condominiums created before July 1, 1982, and would permit remote participation in condominium meetings.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5121•Engrossed

Creates a process for licensure and oversight by DBR over the practices and procedures of virtual currency kiosk operators to prevent fraud related to the use of virtual currency kiosks, by establishing daily transaction limits and the regulating of fees.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5088•Introduced

Mandates the use of a soft-shell helmet cover that adds a padded, soft-shell layer to the outside of a traditional football helmet, for students participating in Rhode Island interscholastic league football.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5081•Engrossed

Waives the fees for vehicle identification number inspections for veterans, including active duty military personnel and members of the National Guard and military reserves.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5049•Introduced

Removes the requirement that the applicant for a Bronze Star Medal license plate pay a registration fee or transfer charge.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5961•Engrossed

Updates the statutory terminology by replacing the phrase "institutions of higher learning" with that of "educational institutions", and would redefine child daycare centers as educational institutions.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5083•Engrossed

Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6343•Introduced

Allows the town council of Coventry to make exemptions from taxation on real and personal property that has undergone environmental remediation. This act is subject to conditions as provided in this section.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6319•Introduced

Clarifies several workers' compensation court authority for injuries to sworn employees (police/fire).

Co-Sponsor

RI H6129•Engrossed

AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF WEST WARWICK TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $71,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN AND ALL ATTENDANT EXPENSES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DEMOLITION, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURAL AND LANDSCAPING COSTS

Co-Sponsor

RI H5231•Engrossed

Provides that commercial driver instruction would include industry-specific training on the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6039•Engrossed

Requires every school district to render assistance and cooperation within its jurisdictional power to further the objects of this chapter, to wit, providing the courts with any information concerning a child as the court may require.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5709•Engrossed

Modernizes and streamlines the existing processes for getting on the permanent mail ballot application list.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5447•Engrossed

Prohibits a person to sell, offer for sale, display for sale or otherwise distribute a farmed animal fur product within the state and provides graduated civil penalties for violations.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5084•Engrossed

Adds early voting to the fifty (50) feet buffer prohibitions against politicking on election day voting.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6044•Introduced

Requires any remaining funds in the enacted budget from the Rhode Island Promise Scholarship program or the Rhode Island Hope Scholarship program to be reimbursed to the onward we learn for any scholarships paid on behalf of Rhode Island College students.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5528•Introduced

Requires the school district of a child in the custody of the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) to pay all the educational cost of the child if the child is place in another school district.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5527•Introduced

Establishes a statewide standalone children's mobile response and stabilization services to address the behavioral health needs of children and youth ages 2 to 21. DCYF to oversee implementation of the program.

Co-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

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