Rhode Island State Representative

Matthew Dawson 2025 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 5)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5645

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/22/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
5/27/25  
Enrolled
6/5/25  
Exempts qualified tuition savings programs of any state authorized under 26 U.S.C. ยง 529 from judicial attachment.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5655

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Makes it a misdemeanor to harass another person by following them and using an electronic device to record their movements in any public or private place.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5659

Introduced
2/26/25  
Provides for municipal and state police authorities to acquire and to utilize automated license plate readers. Further, the act identifies what data may be collected and in what ways the data can be used.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5670

Introduced
2/26/25  
Expands the definition of peace officers to include juvenile program workers and shift coordinators at the department of youth, children and families.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5687

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/4/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/18/25  
Allows for measures to advance the undergrounding of certain utility cables and to have the same funded through utility rate increases to the cities of Providence and East Providence.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5646

Introduced
2/26/25  
Makes persons seventy (70) years of age or older eligible for exemption from jury service.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5651

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows access to juvenile criminal records in order to conduct firearm background checks.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5652

Introduced
2/26/25  
Precludes a person who pled nolo contendere or convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced in accordance with the hate crime sentencing enhancement act for such misdemeanor, from purchasing, owning, carrying, transporting or having possession firearm
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5654

Introduced
2/26/25  
Prohibits local licensing authorities from issuing a concealed carry permit to out of state residents based on permits issued by authorities from other states or subdivisions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5680

Introduced
2/26/25  
Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5706

Introduced
2/26/25  
Replaces the coastal resources management council with a state department of coastal resources and transfer all of the powers and duties between the two (2) authorities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5707

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amends the definition of public record to exempt from public disclosure the city or town of residence of the justices, judges, and magistrates of the unified judicial system.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5714

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/23/25  
Report Pass
6/18/25  
Engrossed
6/21/25  
Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5737

Introduced
2/26/25  
Amend a provision in the general laws relative to additional benefits payable to retired judges and their surviving spouses.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5740

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
6/12/25  
Engrossed
6/16/25  
Enrolled
6/18/25  
Permits the division of unclaimed property within the office of the general treasurer to accept miscellaneous intangible property belonging to Rhode Island residents.