Andrew R. Dimitri

Voted to set rules for how employers use artificial intelligence in hiring and managing workers. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 4, 2026Supports AI Regulation

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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 to replace the 10-member coastal council with a 7-member board whose members must have environmental expertise. It passed the Senate 25-10.

June 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to require that cosmetic procedures at medical spas be done by a doctor or by staff a doctor supervises on site. It passed the Senate 28-9.

June 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to raise the per-barrel oil spill fee from 5 to 10 cents and use the fund for projects that cut greenhouse gas emissions. It passed the Senate 31-5.

June 10, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 6, 2025, that requires public and private golf courses to keep an automated external defibrillator on site.

June 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to require a minimum number of staffed checkout lanes for each self-checkout station and to limit extra duties for workers watching self-checkouts. It passed the Senate 32-6.

June 11, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to set rules for how employers use artificial intelligence in hiring and managing workers. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to widen who counts as an employee under the state labor relations law. It passed the Senate 29-5.

June 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to treat a police officer's heart disease, stroke or high blood pressure as a job-related disability, as firefighters are already treated. It passed the Senate 29-8.

May 15, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 23, 2026, that replaced the periodic refiling of state agency rules with a system where agencies confirm their rules are still in effect.

June 23, 2026Supports 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 Senate 28-9.

June 18, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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

June 9, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted to bar state and local agencies from voluntarily helping with federal civil immigration enforcement, except under a court warrant or order. It passed the Senate 30-8.

June 3, 2026Supports Immigration

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 22, 2026, that makes it a crime for a prisoner to use force or a weapon to resist a lawful order from corrections staff.

June 22, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 19, 2026, that adds a school resource officer to the state's school safety committee.

June 19, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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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 June 27, 2025, that raised the prison term for a repeat animal fighting conviction from two years to five and added required community service.

June 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored the Human Trafficking Prevention Notice Act, signed on June 24, 2025, which requires hotel workers and short-term rental operators to take human trafficking awareness training every year.

June 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to make it a felony to take or try to take a gun, weapon or radio from a police officer. It passed the Senate 31-6.

June 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for the Protect Our Courts Act, which bars civil arrests of people going to Rhode Island court proceedings without a judge's warrant. It passed the Senate 32-6.

June 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to make people convicted of petty misdemeanors or simple drug possession eligible to clear their records three years after finishing their sentence. It passed the Senate 31-6.

May 28, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Introduced a bill on February 27, 2026, for automatic clearing (expungement) of eligible criminal convictions by state agencies, without the person having to apply. A Senate committee held it.

February 27, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to let people with several past convictions ask a court to clear (expunge) their records, with a test of good moral character. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 17, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Introduced a bill on February 21, 2025, to have courts automatically seal dismissed criminal charges when the defendant asks. A Senate committee held it, and he filed it again in 2026.

February 21, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to let courts seal eviction records in some cases, including faulty filings and some cases involving people aged 18 to 21. It passed the Senate 30-6.

June 9, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Introduced a bill on February 27, 2026, letting Johnston pause new affordable housing permits when 250 or more units are proposed through the state's fast-track permit process. It was referred to committee.

February 27, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted to make towns answer a written zoning question within 20 days instead of 15, and to let the applicant appeal that answer. It passed the Senate 28-7.

June 21, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to change how the state's affordable housing law defines local needs, including for towns whose zoning requires at least half of the homes in new developments to be affordable. It passed the Senate 26-11.

June 18, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Introduced a bill on April 4, 2025, requiring some landlords to carry insurance that pays for temporary housing for tenants displaced by fire or disaster. A Senate committee held it.

April 4, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Spoke against the proposed assault weapons ban at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 14, 2025, saying the bill did not separate assault weapons from handguns and some shotguns.

May 14, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 23, 2026, that requires a secure public viewing area where mail ballots are processed and has two staff members check each mail ballot signature against the voter registration record.

June 23, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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

June 9, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Introduced a bill on March 5, 2026, to exempt tips and overtime pay from state income tax, matching the federal treatment. A Senate committee held it.

March 5, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to let people sue anyone acting under federal authority who violates their federal constitutional rights, under a new state law. It passed the Senate 31-7.

June 3, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 24, 2025, that bars someone licensed as both a real estate agent and a mortgage loan originator from being paid for both the home sale and the loan.

June 24, 2025Supports 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 Senate 28-9.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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

June 18, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 23, 2026, that removed fixed deadlines for hearings and decisions in some wage enforcement cases at the state labor department.

June 23, 2026

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 19, 2026, that shields family court mediators and staff in the court's mediation program from money damages over certain claims tied to their work.

June 19, 2026

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Voted against making traffic crash data a public record. It passed the Senate 33-5.

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

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Voted for the state budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, 2026. It passed the Senate 32-6.

June 9, 2026

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Sponsored a bill saying assisted living homes need not hold a room for a Medicare-eligible resident gone more than 10 days unless the state pays to hold it. It passed the Senate on June 4, 2026.

June 4, 2026

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Voted for a pause on approving new or expanded charter schools for the 2026-2027 through 2028-2029 school years. It passed the Senate 31-6.

June 4, 2026

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Sponsored a bill requiring health insurers to repay providers at least 65 percent of unpaid patient copays, coinsurance or deductibles after collection efforts. It passed the Senate on May 28, 2026.

May 28, 2026

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Received the Rhode Island AFL-CIO's endorsement for his 2026 Senate District 25 race.

May 5, 2026

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Voted against a Senate resolution condemning unauthorized U.S. military actions and violations of other nations' sovereignty in Latin America. It passed the Senate 28-9.

January 13, 2026

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on June 26, 2025, that charges student data costs for career and technical school students to the receiving school district, not the sending one.

June 26, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

June 20, 2025

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 18, 2025, that removed the 10 percent cap on other long-term investments (Schedule BA assets) that Rhode Island insurance companies may hold.

June 18, 2025

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Voted for a 2025 plan letting state education leaders step in to support and turn around one struggling school district at a time. It passed the Senate 27-10.

June 18, 2025

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Voted against a bill making a health care provider's apology or sympathy to a patient after a bad outcome unusable as proof of fault in court. It passed the Senate 28-9.

June 12, 2025

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 10, 2025, that raised the per-page fees court reporters charge for transcripts.

June 10, 2025

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Voted against keeping Rhode Island's supervised drug-use centers open two more years, to March 2028. It passed the Senate 27-7.

May 13, 2025

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Won the November 5, 2024 election for Rhode Island Senate District 25 with 8,145 votes to 5,833 for Republican Karin Gorman.

November 5, 2024

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