Elaine J Morgan

Sponsored a law, signed on July 2, 2025, that made it a crime to share sexually explicit images of a person that were digitally created or altered without that person's consent, including AI deepfakes.

July 2, 2025Supports AI Regulation

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Voted against a 2017 law that updated state health insurance rules to keep the market stable and keep consumer protections. It passed the Senate 30-6 on June 14, 2017.

June 14, 2017Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Introduced a bill on April 7, 2016, to require health insurance plans to cover all insulin medicines used to control type 1 diabetes. It was held in committee.

April 7, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to make kratom legal to sell to adults 21 and over, with labeling rules and a ban on mixing it with harmful substances. It passed the Senate 23-10.

June 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against a program tracking the energy and water use of large buildings, with energy performance standards. It passed the Senate 31-6 on June 12, 2024.

June 12, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against the 2021 Act on Climate, which made the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets mandatory. It passed the Senate 28-9 on April 6, 2021.

April 6, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill on March 2, 2017, to bar the health department from requiring the HPV vaccine to attend school. It was held in committee.

March 2, 2017Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill on February 4, 2020, to repeal Rhode Island's estate tax. It was held in committee; she had filed the same bill in 2018 and 2019.

February 4, 2020Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted against covering domestic workers in private homes under the state minimum wage law. It passed the Senate 32-5 on June 13, 2024.

June 13, 2024Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against raising the minimum wage from $11.50 to $15 an hour over four years. It passed the Senate 29-7 on May 18, 2021.

May 18, 2021Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against raising the state minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in 2020. It passed the Senate 32-6 on June 18, 2019.

June 18, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against keeping all terms of teacher and city worker union contracts in force while a new contract is negotiated. It passed the Senate 28-8 on May 1, 2019.

May 1, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against requiring employers with 18 or more workers to give paid sick days. It passed the Senate 26-8 on June 30, 2017.

June 30, 2017Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against letting Providence raise its property tax levy by up to 8 percent in one year, above the usual state cap. It passed the Senate 28-7.

June 20, 2025Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted against letting residents who cannot prove legal immigration status get a Rhode Island driver privilege card or state ID. It passed the Senate 27-9 on June 15, 2023.

June 15, 2023Opposes Immigration

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Introduced a bill on February 13, 2020, to require employers with three or more workers, and state and local governments, to use the federal E-Verify system to check that workers may legally work. It was held in committee.

February 13, 2020Opposes Immigration

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Voted against letting the state help finance a new minor league ballpark in Pawtucket. It passed the Senate 26-9 on January 16, 2018.

January 16, 2018Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored a law, enacted on July 1, 2016, that let the Chariho Regional School District borrow up to $6 million for new school construction, subject to approval by district voters.

July 1, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to make it a crime for a prisoner to use force or a weapon to resist a lawful order from a corrections officer. It passed the Senate 25-13.

June 11, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 2, 2025, that made it a crime to share sexually explicit images of a person that were digitally created or altered without that person's consent, including AI deepfakes.

July 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for creating a new crime for delivering illegal drugs that cause a death. It passed the Senate 25-11 on June 21, 2018.

June 21, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on May 21, 2015, that raised the penalties for crimes involving the sex trafficking of a minor.

May 21, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 17, 2024, that requires employers with more than 50 workers to display a state poster about veterans' benefits and services.

June 17, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored a law, enacted on July 5, 2018, that let West Greenwich place five-year tax liens on homes of poor and infirm owners instead of requiring them to pay their property taxes.

July 5, 2018Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Introduced a bill on March 1, 2018, to require random drug tests for people receiving public assistance, with retesting for those who failed. It was held in committee; she had filed it in 2015 and 2017 too.

March 1, 2018Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Introduced a bill on February 13, 2026, to repeal the state laws setting statewide academic standards for public schools in math, English, science and other subjects. It was held in committee.

February 13, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Sponsored a law, enacted on July 1, 2016, that let the Chariho Regional School District borrow up to $6 million for new school construction, subject to approval by district voters.

July 1, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against requiring gun owners to store firearms safely, with penalties for violations. It passed the Senate 30-7 on June 6, 2024.

June 6, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against raising the minimum age to buy guns or ammunition from 18 to 21. It passed the Senate 32-5 on June 14, 2022.

June 14, 2022Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against banning carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun in public, with exceptions such as hunting and police work. It passed the Senate 32-5 on June 14, 2022.

June 14, 2022Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against banning buying a gun for someone who may not legally have one and raising penalties for lying on gun purchase forms. It passed the Senate 26-12 on June 30, 2021.

June 30, 2021Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against the Julie Lynn Cardinal Act, which sends gun purchase applications to the buyer's local police as well as the State Police. It passed the Senate 33-4 on July 13, 2020.

July 13, 2020Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against banning ghost guns and 3D-printed guns that metal detectors cannot find. It passed the Senate 34-4 on June 17, 2020.

June 17, 2020Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against shielding Rhode Island health care providers from lawsuits and prosecution by other states over reproductive and gender-affirming care. It passed the Senate 31-6 on June 13, 2024.

June 13, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against covering abortion in Medicaid and state employee health plans. It passed the Senate 24-13 on May 18, 2023.

May 18, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against the Reproductive Privacy Act, which wrote abortion rights into state law. It passed the Senate 21-17 on June 19, 2019.

June 19, 2019Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Introduced a bill on February 6, 2026, to require mail ballot applications to include the voter's date of birth and a driver's license or state ID number for checking. It was held in committee; she had filed similar bills since 2017.

February 6, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Introduced a bill on January 9, 2026, to exempt all Social Security income from the state income tax. It was held in committee; she had filed it every year since 2023.

January 9, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Introduced a bill on April 6, 2018, to require that people be told when their unencrypted personal information is breached, with penalties for violations. It was held in committee.

April 6, 2018Supports Data Privacy

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Introduced a bill on February 13, 2026, to ban gender transition procedures for all minors and the use of public money for them, and to let patients sue providers. It was held in committee; she had filed it since 2023.

February 13, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, to define antisemitism for the state agencies that investigate discrimination complaints and hate crimes. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, to divide school sports teams by sex at birth rather than gender identity. It was held in committee; she had filed it since 2021.

January 23, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Served as Senate Minority Whip from June 2019 to January 2021, then as Senate Deputy Minority Whip, according to her official Senate biography.

September 21, 2026

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 10, 2026, that created a $5,000 property tax exemption in Exeter for totally disabled veterans.

June 10, 2026

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Voted against banning plants that burn or chemically break down waste and plastics into fuel at the Quonset industrial park. It passed the Senate 29-9.

June 10, 2026

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against keeping federal immigration agents at least 200 feet from any polling place while voting is going on. It passed the Senate 29-8.

June 9, 2026

Source: legiscan.com

Introduced a bill on February 13, 2026, to repeal the law that allows tolls on state roads, including the truck tolls. It was held in committee.

February 13, 2026

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Introduced a bill on February 13, 2026, to let a student's state school funding go into an account that parents could spend on private school tuition, tutoring and other costs. It was held in committee.

February 13, 2026

Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov

Introduced a bill on February 6, 2026, letting doctors, hospitals and insurers refuse to take part in or pay for any medical service that violates their conscience. It was held in committee.

February 6, 2026

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Introduced a parents' bill of rights on February 6, 2026, barring government from infringing on parents' rights over their children's health, education and welfare. It was held in committee.

February 6, 2026

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Introduced a bill on February 6, 2026, to make it a felony for a doctor or nurse to knowingly fail to give reasonable care to an infant born alive, and manslaughter if the infant died. It was held in committee.

February 6, 2026

Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov

Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, to set up rules banning geoengineering and weather experiments that release substances into the air, such as solar radiation modification and cloud seeding. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2026

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Voted against changing the deadline for a town's written zoning answer to 20 days and letting the applicant appeal it. It passed the Senate 28-7.

June 21, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against requiring town zoning rules to allow attached single-family homes, such as townhouses, in designated districts. It passed the Senate 23-12.

June 20, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against replacing the 10-member coastal council with a 7-member board of environmental experts. It passed the Senate 25-10.

June 20, 2025

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Voted against defining co-living housing, where residents rent a private room and share a kitchen or bath, and letting towns allow it. It passed the Senate 25-10.

June 20, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against requiring town zoning rules to allow homes in commercial districts, including apartments above shops. It passed the Senate 25-10.

June 20, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against requiring town zoning rules to allow housing other than detached single-family homes in sewered urban areas. It passed the Senate 23-12.

June 20, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against banning the sale, manufacture and purchase of assault-style firearms in Rhode Island. It passed the Senate 25-11.

June 20, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against burying part of a high-voltage power line and charging the extra cost to electric customers in Providence and East Providence. It passed the Senate 28-9.

June 18, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against letting Rhode Island's electric utility buy nuclear power and sign long-term contracts for it. It passed the Senate 23-14.

June 18, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against requiring that cosmetic procedures at medical spas be done by a doctor or by supervised staff. It passed the Senate 28-9.

June 17, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Voted against treating a police officer's heart disease, stroke or high blood pressure as a job-related disability. It passed the Senate 29-8.

May 15, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

Posted on Facebook on March 14, 2025, describing a security worker at Providence's ECHO Village shelter as a dark-skinned man after she was turned away. She edited the post several times after criticism.

March 14, 2025

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Won re-election to the state Senate on November 5, 2024, defeating Democrat Stephen Moffitt in District 34.

November 5, 2024

Source: thewesterlysun.com

Voted against requiring mail ballot drop boxes to open 35 days before an election. It passed the Senate 32-5 on June 11, 2024.

June 11, 2024

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for the overhaul of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which changed how police discipline hearings work. It passed the Senate 33-4 on June 6, 2024.

June 6, 2024

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against the Let RI Vote Act, which allowed mail voting without an excuse and dropped the witness or notary rule for mail ballots. It passed the Senate 32-6 on May 24, 2022.

May 24, 2022

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against the Rhode Island Cannabis Act, which legalized marijuana for adults 21 and older. It passed the Senate 32-6 on May 24, 2022.

May 24, 2022

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against a two-year pilot of harm reduction centers, where people can use drugs they already have under medical supervision. It passed the Senate 30-7 on July 1, 2021.

July 1, 2021

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Sponsored a law, enacted on June 27, 2020, that let Exeter raise the property tax exemption for its active volunteer firefighters and rescue workers from $50,000 to $100,000.

June 27, 2020

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Sponsored a law, enacted on July 4, 2019, that let West Greenwich sign tax stabilization deals with businesses for up to 12 years instead of 10.

July 4, 2019

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Voted against requiring presidential candidates to file five years of federal tax returns with the state to be on the ballot. It passed the Senate 28-10 on April 10, 2019.

April 10, 2019

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against tolls on large commercial trucks to pay for bridge repairs. It passed the Senate 25-12 on February 11, 2016.

February 11, 2016

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Sent an email to fellow senators in November 2015 calling for any Syrian refugees admitted to be kept segregated in a camp, and describing Muslims as violent. On November 20, 2015, she said she meant extremists and a federal holding center.

November 20, 2015

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Sponsored a law, signed on May 7, 2015, that made polls in Richmond open at 7 a.m. for special and primary elections instead of 9 a.m.

May 7, 2015

Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov

Agreed to pay a $1,200 fine in a consent order the state Board of Elections accepted on July 25, 2022. An audit found her campaign spent $2,604 on personal expenses, which she repaid, and reported $4,200 in donations without donor details.

July 25, 2022

Source: thewesterlysun.com