Senator • Democrat
Joshua Miller
Rhode Island • District SD-028
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
46
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
100% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 21
Not Voting: 48
Other: 8
Yea: 1522
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Sponsored Bills
RI S2714•Passed
Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid.
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RI S2072•Passed
Designates, for fiscal year 2025, the usage for certain funds within the immunization account.
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RI S2885•Passed
Permits hybrid cannabis cultivators to advertise regarding cannabis products during the transitional period.
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RI S2808•Passed
Requires that developers of ground-mounted solar systems submit a plan for decommissioning to be held on file by the municipality and requires DEM, with the office of energy resources, make publicly available model decommissioning plans.
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RI S2820•Passed
Substitutes the current lists of controlled substances in the general laws with the current version of title 21 of the code of federal regulations.
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RI S2557•Passed
Establishes the behavioral health education, training, and coordination fund to receive the checkoff contributions from Rhode Island personal income tax returns for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2024.
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RI S2621•Vetoed
Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes.
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RI S2625•Passed
Relocates the chapter relating to licensing of massage therapists from the health and safety title to the businesses and professions title with multiple amendments.
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RI S2298•Passed
Requires the chief resilience officer (CRO) and a resiliency office within the department of environmental management (DEM) be charged with the creation, maintenance and updating of the state's resiliency and community recovery program.
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RI S2152•Passed
Enacts the Comprehensive PFAS Ban Act of 2024, prohibiting the intentional addition of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances of PFAS in products offered for sale or manufactured in the state as of January 1, 2027.
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RI S2042•Passed
Establishes the Transparency in Arts Education Access and Proficiency Act to promote arts education.
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RI S2623•Passed
Creates the occupational therapy licensure compact that would allow licensed occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants to practice in all states that join the compact.
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RI S2293•Passed
Establishes the renewable ready program and fund to promotes the responsible siting/development of renewable energy generating resources in locations where it would be an ancillary beneficial use to the redevelopment of previously contaminated property.
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RI S2262•Passed
Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.
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RI S2181•Passed
Repeals the July 1, 2025, sunset provision of the interstate medical licensure act.
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RI S2121•Passed
Makes care recipients eligible for temporary caregiver benefits and increase the maximum temporary caregiver benefit weeks from six (6) to eight (8) weeks over of period of two years.
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RI S2083•Passed
Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice, before taking and receiving results of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX).
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RI S2015•Passed
Mandates, as of 1/1/26, all recovery housing facilities register with department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals adhere to the National Alliance for Recovery Residences process.
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RI S2732•Passed
Prohibits captive hunting for domestic or wild animals and does not prohibit the release of domestic game birds for hunting on licensed shooting preserves.
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RI S2635•Passed
Provide the maximum number of unrelated persons living together that could be constitute an individual household would not be less than one person per bedroom.
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RI S2394•Passed
Allows the healthcare facility to conduct human-subject research on patients subject to 21 C.F.R. Pt 50 and/or 45 C.F.R. Pt 46 (relating to the informed consent of human subjects).
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RI S2086•Passed
Prohibits healthcare entities from interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain a clinician-administered drug from their provider or pharmacy of choice.
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RI S2976•Passed
Allows for the surviving spouse of a National Guard member to have the spouses National Guard plates transferred to them upon their spouses death.
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RI S2858•Passed
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $400,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES TO FINANCE THE CONSTRUCTION, RELATED DEMOLITION, RENOVATION, IMPROVEMENT, ALTERATION, REPAIR, LANDSCAPING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND ALL COSTS RELATED THERETO, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF STATE HOUSING AID AT A REIMBURSEMENT RATE OR STATE SHARE RATIO OF NOT LESS THAN 75% AT THE TIME OF ISSUANCE AND PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE REDUCED BY THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN GRANTS RECEIVED FROM STATE BOND PROCEEDS, FROM THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OR FROM THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY
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RI S2850•Passed
Updates the existing Toxic Packaging Act by delaying the ban on PFAS in food packaging until January 1, 2025, and in processing agents until July 1, 2027.
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RI S2378•Passed
Requires the department of health to amend its rules and regulations that allow for DEA-registered pharmacies to transfer electronic prescriptions at a patient's request.
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RI S2382•Passed
Repeals the authority of the health insurance commissioner to enforce any act of Congress/decision of federal court invalidating or repealing the prohibition of annual lifetime limits on health insurance in this state.
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RI S2255•Passed
Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any copayment or the meeting of any deductible to obtain the prescription covered by the contract, plan, or policy.
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RI S2220•Passed
Prohibits any agreement whereby an advanced practice registered nurse is restricted in the right to practice in a certain geographic area, assist or provide treatment or establish a professional relationship with any other employer.
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RI S2043•Passed
Adds climate change, sea-level rise and coastal resiliency to the analysis of data of the strategic plan for economic development policy. Adds director of DEM and executive director of CRMC to economic development planning council.
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RI S2115•Passed
Amends the current requirement of payment of initial filing fee/service of process costs when the victim of crime is still owed restitution at the expiration of the case/seeks to enforce the civil judgment entered at the time of the criminal disposition.
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RI S2773•Engrossed
Denies the right of footway, except within one hundred (100) yards of the Pawtuxet River in the cities of Warwick and Cranston and except in connection with a right to pass with carriages to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.
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RI S2536•Engrossed
Prohibits utility companies from limiting the eligibility of a net metering site based on prior consumption and requires excess energy not consumed under the net metering system to be credited to the consumer.
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RI S2202•Passed
Requires safe storage of firearms/provides civil and criminal penalties for violations/adds rifles and shotguns to the types of firearms requiring a trigger lock to be included with purchase/requires firearms dealers post signs regarding safe storage.
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RI S2125•Engrossed
Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/2024.
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RI S2952•Engrossed
Establishes a program for the energy benchmarking of large buildings in Rhode Island and a standard for their energy performance.
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RI S2896•Passed
Provides conditions which persons paid to recover or assist in recovering reported property must comply with.
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RI S2597•Engrossed
Provides for an appropriation by the general assembly in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the various school districts and municipalities to employ additional social workers.
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RI S2516•Passed
Requires RIDE to develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students that will be posted publicly on RIDE's website.
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RI S2458•Passed
Includes the general assembly elections within the category of elections subject to the risk-limiting audits within the jurisdiction of the board of elections.
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RI S2090•Engrossed
Requires radon testing within one year of any residential real estate transaction and the installation of a radon mitigation system if unsafe radon levels are present, at the seller's expense.
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RI S2853•Engrossed
Requires that public utilities plan utility work in accordance with the state transportation improvement program schedules when working on state roads.
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RI S2713•Engrossed
Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
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RI S2717•Engrossed
Adds a definition for "primary care" to the general law regarding the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowships.
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RI S2716•Engrossed
Establishes the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the DOH.
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RI S2404•Engrossed
Broadens the definition of a "qualified individual" in acupuncture and Chinese medicine to include any person trained and certified in auricular acudetox.
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