2017

• Sponsored and passed legislation to reform the regulatory framework for plant-based industries and agriculture

• Sponsored and passed legislation to expand background checks for teachers and volunteers in private and parochial settings

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation mandating local planning boards receive training in sea level rise and climate change

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to expand protections for victims provided by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to allow the creation of a Superior Court diversion program for persons with mental health issues and substance abuse issues charged with certain offenses

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to create an evidence based batterers intervention program designed to help reduce rates of domestic violence in RI

• Co-sponsored and passed a number of measures designed to implement a criminal justice reinvestment program in RI

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation reforming RI’s human trafficking law to make it more compatible with the other states which leads to more effective enforcement

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to expand net metering to educational institutes and nonprofits

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to create a municipal housing court in Warren

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to strengthen RI’s domestic violence law by including crimes against children forced to engage in commercial sex acts

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to provide greater consumer protections to people who have been hospitalized

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to fully eliminate the car tax

 2018

• Sponsored and passed legislation to provide greater protections for communications between attorneys and their clients when using an interpreter

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to ban bump stocks, which are firearm modifications designed to make semi-automatic weapons fully automatic and were used in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to allow Barrington to provide a tax exemption to veterans, widows, and Gold Star parents

 2019

• Proudly voted to codify Roe vs. Wade into state law and protective reproductive rights and access to abortion in RI

 2020

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to strengthen background checks for those wishing to purchase firearms

  [and then COVID hit…]

 2021

• Sponsored and passed legislation to allow Bristol County Water Authority to demolish dams on the Kickemuit River and return the river to its natural state

• Sponsored and passed legislation to eliminate the fee to expunge a criminal record, making the procedure more widely available

• Sponsored and passed legislation to expand the DUI law to more effectively cover drug users

• Sponsored and passed legislation expanding the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court

• Sponsored and passed legislation modernizing certain aspects of the Motor Vehicle Insurance Law

• Sponsored and passed legislation designed to help local businesses by removing zoning restrictions

• Sponsored and passed legislation outlawing “straw” purchases of firearms

• Sponsored and passed legislation to expand property tax credits for people over 60

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to expand the use of biodiesel fuel

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to require DCYF to follow up on all allegations of child sexual abuse

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation outlawing income discrimination for those seeking housing

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation the Act on Climate bill, a landmark bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state of RI

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to standardize professional licensing and make the whole process more fair

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation creating a Holocause and Genocide Education Committee

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to pay for doula services for those on Medicaid

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to allow veterans to put a veteran license plate on their business vehicles

• Co-sponsored legislation to create a constitutional right to an adequate education, a fight that continues

 2022

• Sponsored and passed legislation to strengthen the Elder Exploitation Law in RI

• Sponsored and passed legislation eliminating court costs for indigent criminal defendants who have served their sentences

• Sponsored and passed legislation allowing the ACI to more effectively coordinate with treatment facilities for substance abuse and mental health

• Sponsored and passed legislation designed to help local businesses by removing zoning restrictions

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to ban high capacity magazines in the state of RI

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to provide for regulation of PFAS chemicals in RI waters

• Co-sponsored and passed legislation to improve transparency of nursing home providers who receive government funds