Representative • Democrat

Joseph McNamara

Rhode Island • District HD-019

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 59

Not Voting: 122

Other: 4

Yea: 2030

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Sponsored Bills

RI H6060•Introduced

Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5947•Introduced

Amends the audit compliance requirements for municipalities' contributions to pension plans under the budget of accounts and installation of systems chapter.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5637•Engrossed

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H5108•Introduced

Allows internationally trained physicians to practice at healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities and provides a mentorship alternative to the residency requirement.

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.

Primary 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.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5273•Engrossed

Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5110•Engrossed

Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6320•Engrossed

Provides that the tax rate for Class 1 and Class 2 property be uniform and set to the same percentage.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6298•Engrossed

Proposes amendments to the Warwick City Charter.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6299•Engrossed

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WARWICK TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $50,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, DEMOLITION, ARCHITECTURAL COSTS, ENGINEERING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF

Primary Sponsor

RI H5299•Introduced

Directs RIHousing to work with stakeholders to investigate and determine ways to assist an incorporated homeowners' association to exercise rights to purchase leased land.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6148•Engrossed

Empowers the division of motor vehicles to make available special motor vehicle registration plates for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association.

Primary Sponsor

RI H5084•Engrossed

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

Co-Sponsor

RI H6306•Engrossed

Allows Daniel Vaca to join Kaley Erin O’Connor and James John Pawelski in marriage on or about October 12, 2025, within the City of Newport, Rhode Island

Primary Sponsor

RI H5992•Introduced

Amends the Rhode Island works program to allow lawful permanent residents to receive benefits without a waiting period.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5197•Introduced

Removes the requirement that families consent to, and cooperate with the department of human services in establishing paternity and enforcing child and medical support orders as a condition of eligibility for child care assistance.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5196•Introduced

Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5405•Introduced

Establishes a restricted receipt account for the benefit of the Rhode Island public transit authority, funded by sales taxes collected from ride-share companies, which said sales taxes would be exempt from indirect cost recovery provisions.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6254•Introduced

Authorizes office of health and human services (EOHHS) to establish coverage for obesity treatments, including medication. Office of health and human services would seek a 1115(a) waiver.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5279•Introduced

Gives teachers who takes an unpaid parental or medical leave during the year credit for a year of service for that school year if they served a minimum of 135 days.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5199•Introduced

Establishes guidelines for continued implementation and expansion of public, high-quality kindergarten education programs.

Primary Sponsor

RI H6304•Introduced

Ensures public access to lead service lines to determine the existence of lead within the water connection. This act also ensures mitigation measures and replacement lines are consistent with the current version of 40 C.C.R. 141 Subpart I.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5286•Introduced

Exempts from the sales and use tax, the sale of beer and malt beverages at retail.

Co-Sponsor

RI H6317•Introduced

Prohibits an insurer from imposing a requirement of prior authorization for any admission, item, service, treatment, test, exam, study, procedure, or any generic or brand name prescription drug ordered by a primary care provider.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5474•Introduced

Phases in modifications to federal adjusted gross income over a four (4) year period for social security income, from twenty percent (20%) up to eighty percent (80%), beginning on or after January 1, 2026.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5898•Engrossed

Amends the general law relative to right-of-way of pedestrians to reference the schedule of violations for the adjudication of traffic offenses contained in § 31-41.1-4.

Co-Sponsor

RI H5619•Engrossed

Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials.

Co-Sponsor

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