Alex D. Marszalkowski

Sponsored a law, signed on October 4, 2017, adding rules for how quickly hospitals must give patients a requested cost estimate for planned services.

October 4, 2017Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to replace the 10-member coastal council with a 7-member board whose members must have environmental expertise. It passed the House 52-19.

June 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to keep Rhode Island's supervised drug-use centers open two more years, to March 2028. The centers are meant to prevent overdose deaths. It passed the House 51-16.

May 29, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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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 House 40-24.

May 29, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for requiring that all of Rhode Island's electricity come from renewable sources by 2033. It passed the House 56-13.

June 14, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for the 2021 Act on Climate, which made the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets mandatory. It passed the House 53-22.

March 23, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill in 2019 to require that a growing share of new state fleet vehicles, starting at 20 percent, be electric, plug-in hybrid or fuel cell vehicles. It did not pass.

February 27, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill in 2018 to ban PFAS, a group of long-lasting man-made chemicals, from food packaging. It did not pass.

February 28, 2018Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for raising the state minimum wage from $11.50 to $15 an hour over four years. It passed the House 58-16.

May 6, 2021Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for covering domestic workers in private homes under the state minimum wage law. It passed the House 56-12.

May 4, 2023Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for raising the state minimum wage from $11.50 to $15 an hour over four years. It passed the House 58-16.

May 6, 2021Supports Labor Rights

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Introduced a bill in 2020 to raise criminal penalties for wage theft and for wrongly classifying employees as contractors. It did not pass.

February 26, 2020Supports Labor Rights

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Introduced a bill in 2018 to exempt newspaper delivery workers from the state minimum wage law. It did not pass.

June 20, 2018Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for requiring employers with 18 or more workers to give paid sick days. It passed the House 56-14.

June 29, 2017Supports Labor Rights

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Introduced a bill in 2017 to write the attorney general's public corruption and white collar crime unit into state law. It did not pass.

February 16, 2017Supports Anti-Corruption

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Introduced a bill in 2026 to add oversight and reporting rules for state audits and building projects. It did not pass.

February 27, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 24, 2024, requiring cities and towns that run their own pension plans to send required actuarial studies to the state advisory council on local pension plans.

June 24, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Sponsored a bill letting public bodies hold in-person, virtual or hybrid open meetings until July 1, 2023, with public access online. It passed the House on June 25, 2021.

June 25, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to bury part of a high-voltage power line in Providence and East Providence. Electric customers in those two cities pay the extra cost through their bills. It passed the House 52-18.

June 10, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted to let Providence raise its property tax levy by up to 8 percent in one year, above the usual state cap. It passed the House 56-17.

May 27, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted to bar civil arrests at Rhode Island courthouses without a judge's warrant, which protects people going to court from immigration arrest. It passed the House 56-16.

June 10, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted for letting residents who cannot prove legal immigration status get a state ID card, which cannot be used for voting. It passed the House 59-14.

June 14, 2023Supports Immigration

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Introduced a bill in 2019 to tighten controls on state spending, with more reporting, penalties and limits on agencies spending more than budgeted. It did not pass.

February 27, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored a bill requiring contractors working on state roads to have a crash-absorbing truck with a working camera at the site. It passed the House on June 8, 2026 and was sent to a Senate committee.

June 8, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to require police to send guns used in crimes for ballistic testing and enter the results in the national tracing database. It passed the House 49-21.

June 10, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for adding five driving violations to the state's definition of aggressive driving. It passed the House 41-21.

April 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 17, 2024, waiving court filing fees and service costs for crime victims who are still owed restitution when a criminal case ends.

June 17, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for removing the time limit for prosecuting second-degree sexual assault and setting a 10-year limit for third-degree sexual assault. It passed the House 44-24.

May 2, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a bill making sexual contact by a teacher or other person in authority with a student aged 14 to 17 a third-degree sexual assault. It passed the House on June 28, 2019 but not the Senate.

June 28, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for creating a new crime for selling drugs that cause a death. It passed the House 54-15.

June 20, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on October 11, 2017 without the governor's signature, requiring the state environmental agency to make docks and piers longer than 20 feet on freshwater lakes and ponds carry reflectors.

October 11, 2017Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to bar civil arrests at Rhode Island courthouses without a judge's warrant, which protects people going to court from immigration arrest. It passed the House 56-16.

June 10, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to let people with more than one non-violent felony clear their records after 15 years without a new arrest. It passed the House 56-14.

June 9, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to stop towns from using zoning to treat certified addiction recovery homes worse than other houses on the street. It passed the House 53-15.

June 11, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for barring town zoning rules from capping unrelated people sharing a home at fewer than one per bedroom. It passed the House 49-22.

June 15, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 8, 2019, giving broad legal protection to people and businesses that donate food to food banks.

July 8, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to keep Rhode Island out of the new federal private-school voucher tax credit unless the legislature and governor both approve joining. It passed the House 55-14.

June 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for taking guns away from people under certain domestic violence restraining orders. It passed the House 56-13.

June 26, 2017Supports Gun Control

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Voted for shielding Rhode Island health care providers from lawsuits and prosecution by other states over reproductive and gender-affirming care. It passed the House 50-15.

June 11, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for covering abortion in Medicaid and state employee health plans. It passed the House 49-24.

April 27, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for final House passage of the Reproductive Privacy Act, which wrote the abortion rights of Roe v. Wade into state law. It passed the House 45-29.

June 19, 2019Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Introduced a bill in 2017 to raise the state income tax exemption for retirement income to $25,000. It did not pass.

March 22, 2017Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Introduced a bill in 2026 to bar online sellers from raising prices for a shopper based on computer programs that track personal data. It did not pass.

February 27, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 26, 2024, changing who counts as an authorized representative under the state law that keeps health care information confidential.

June 26, 2024Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to stop towns from using zoning to treat certified addiction recovery homes worse than other houses on the street. It passed the House 53-15.

June 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for a Homeless Bill of Rights bill setting steps that must be followed before a homeless encampment can be removed or relocated. It passed the House 56-13.

May 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for the Freedom to Read Act, which bars public and school libraries from removing books over objections to their ideas. It passed the House 62-11.

June 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for shielding Rhode Island health care providers from lawsuits and prosecution by other states over reproductive and gender-affirming care. It passed the House 50-15.

June 11, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for 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 House 53-13.

May 17, 2022Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for letting voters with disabilities and military voters overseas return their ballots electronically. It passed the House 48-17.

June 16, 2021Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 19, 2026, setting penalties for tax preparers who deliberately mislead clients or prepare returns without signing them.

June 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Introduced a bill in 2026 to bar online sellers from raising prices for a shopper based on computer programs that track personal data. It did not pass.

February 27, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to bury part of a high-voltage power line in Providence and East Providence. Electric customers in those two cities pay the extra cost through their bills. It passed the House 52-18.

June 10, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on June 24, 2026 without the governor's signature, exempting the property of the nonprofit Mount St. Rita Health Centre in Cumberland from taxes.

June 24, 2026

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 23, 2026, changing how bank income is divided among states for Rhode Island tax purposes.

June 23, 2026

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 19, 2026, giving the state tax division more time to review cases involving out-of-state contractors and setting a penalty for breaking that law's rules.

June 19, 2026

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Voted for letting candidates spend campaign money on home or office security systems and monitoring. It passed the House 50-20.

June 10, 2026

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Was named second assistant speaker of the House by new Speaker Christopher Blazejewski in May 2026.

May 15, 2026

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Voted for creating an online portal for candidates to file nomination papers, starting in 2027. It passed the House 47-20.

April 30, 2026

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Voted against banning the sale, manufacture and purchase of assault-style firearms in Rhode Island. It passed the House 44-28.

June 20, 2025

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Voted for letting people with one felony and one misdemeanor clear the felony from their record after a waiting period, excluding violent crimes. It passed the House 54-19.

June 13, 2024

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Voted for the House overhaul of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which set a new hearing panel for police discipline. It passed the House 58-14.

May 9, 2024

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Voted for legalizing online casino gambling in Rhode Island. It passed the House 59-11.

June 15, 2023

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Voted for raising the campaign contribution limit for individuals and political action committees to $2,000 a year. It passed the House 41-29.

June 12, 2023

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Voted for legalizing recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older. It passed the House 55-16.

May 24, 2022

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on July 17, 2021 without the governor's signature, changing how cable television equipment is classified for tax purposes.

July 17, 2021

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Voted for a two-year pilot of harm reduction centers, where people can use drugs they already have under medical supervision. It passed the House 63-9.

June 29, 2021

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Was named a House deputy majority leader in Speaker Joe Shekarchi's January 2021 leadership and committee assignments.

January 30, 2021

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Voted for the state budget for the 2021 fiscal year. It passed the House 60-6.

December 16, 2020

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on July 10, 2018 without the governor's signature, rewriting the list of business equipment and other personal property that cities and towns may tax, to make the rules clearer for businesses.

July 10, 2018

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Voted for letting doctors order a 72-hour emergency hold for people with severe drug intoxication. It passed the House 51-17.

June 22, 2018

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 18, 2018, updating state limits on truck size and weight to match federal law.

June 18, 2018

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on July 7, 2017 without the governor's signature, making a seat on the Cumberland Fire District's fire committee a public office and setting rules for its elections.

July 7, 2017

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 19, 2017, moving the power to expel credit union members from the board to management, and requiring written notice to the expelled member.

June 19, 2017

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