Thomas E. Noret

Introduced a bill creating rules for how employers may use artificial intelligence in the workplace. A House committee held it for further study.

February 12, 2026Supports AI Regulation

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 10, 2026, requiring all public and private middle and high schools to keep working defibrillators on site and adopt a cardiac emergency plan, starting in the 2027-2028 school year.

June 10, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against a bill requiring large buildings to report their energy use, with the state energy office publishing the results. It passed the House 48-20.

June 20, 2025Opposes 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 House 52-19.

June 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill to exempt cookware containing PFAS chemicals approved by the FDA from Rhode Island's consumer PFAS ban. He filed it again in 2026, and each time a House committee held it.

March 12, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 27, 2022, requiring owners of large dams to get a state environmental permit before raising or lowering the water level, except for public water supplies.

June 27, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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

June 14, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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

March 23, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to raise Rhode Island's 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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Introduced a bill creating rules for how employers may use artificial intelligence in the workplace. A House committee held it for further study.

February 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 15, 2022, requiring minors who seek a special work permit to complete state training on workers' rights, workplace safety and workers' compensation.

June 15, 2022Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to raise Rhode Island's 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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Sponsored a law, signed on June 30, 2022, requiring the state housing office to report each year to lawmakers and housing agencies on Section 8 rental vouchers.

June 30, 2022Supports 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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Introduced a bill to raise pension benefits for current and former state police members and let them serve longer. A House committee held it for further study.

February 28, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 18, 2026, requiring companies that inspect or clean commercial kitchen exhaust systems to be licensed and insured, starting in 2029.

June 18, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 2, 2025, requiring drivers who use a phone for navigation to keep it mounted, not held in their hand.

July 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 26, 2025, requiring video cameras that catch drivers passing stopped school buses on all new buses from 2027 and on every bus by 2032. It passed the House 69-2.

June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a bill, passed by the House 41-21 on April 24, 2025, adding five driving violations to the state's definition of aggressive driving. The Senate did not pass it.

April 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a bill, passed by the House 50-17 on May 29, 2024, adding school superintendents, principals and other school staff to the law that makes threatening public officials a crime. The Senate did not pass it.

May 29, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill making people charged with serious crimes or drug dealing presumed dangerous and a flight risk at bail hearings when proof of guilt is strong. A House committee held it for further study.

April 10, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 22, 2023, requiring police to be trained to recognize mental health and substance use disorders and requiring crisis intervention team training for all officers. It passed the House 69-0.

June 22, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill setting a 10-year deadline for charging second-degree sexual assault. A House committee held it for further study.

February 15, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 27, 2022, requiring correctional officers to pass firearms qualification every year instead of every two years.

June 27, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 12, 2021, making it a crime, punishable by up to one year in jail, to possess or make sexualized images of children known as child erotica. It passed the House 70-0.

July 12, 2021Supports 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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Sponsored a law, signed on June 18, 2026, expanding the state's low-income housing law to cover moderate-income housing and dropping the fixed income cutoffs used to qualify.

June 18, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 24, 2025, opening the state program that turns vacant schools into housing to all cities and towns and extending its study deadline.

June 24, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a bill, passed by the House 62-11 on May 6, 2025, setting up a process to build housing on vacant or underused state-owned land. The Senate did not pass it.

May 6, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 15, 2019, requiring sellers of one- to four-unit homes to disclose changes to wiring, heating, plumbing and ventilation, plus any mold or water damage.

July 15, 2019Supports Housing Affordability

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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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Introduced a bill giving people denied a concealed handgun carry permit a way to ask for reconsideration and then appeal. He has filed a version every year since 2020, and each was held in committee.

February 6, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against requiring gun owners to store firearms safely, with penalties for violations. It passed the House 46-24.

May 28, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against making it a felony to own gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. It passed the House 43-27.

June 10, 2022Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to raise the minimum age to buy guns or ammunition from 18 to 21. It passed the House 53-15.

June 10, 2022Supports Gun Control

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Voted against banning guns on school grounds, except for police and school security. It passed the House 44-28.

June 30, 2021Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against banning the purchase of a gun for someone who is not allowed to have one and raising penalties for lying on gun purchase forms. It passed the House 46-27.

June 30, 2021Opposes 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 House 50-15.

June 11, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against 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, 2019Opposes Women's Reproductive 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 and requires model library policies. It passed the House 62-11.

June 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 13, 2025, requiring universal changing stations for people of all ages who need help with diapering in new or remodeled public buildings, starting in 2027.

June 13, 2025Supports 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 to allow electronic ballots for voters with disabilities and military voters. It passed the House 48-17.

June 16, 2021Supports Civil Rights

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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, signed on June 18, 2026, allowing towns to waive interest on overdue property taxes for commercial properties.

June 18, 2026

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

June 11, 2026

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Voted against 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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Voted against letting 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, 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 against requiring 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, 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 House 51-16.

May 29, 2025

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Voted against making kratom legal to sell to adults 21 and over under labeling rules. Opponents wanted the product kept off the shelf. It passed the House 40-24.

May 29, 2025

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 25, 2024, letting police tactical teams use firearm silencers on duty under the supervision of their chief or the state police colonel.

June 25, 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 to legalize online casino gambling (iGaming) in Rhode Island. It passed the House 59-11.

June 15, 2023

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

May 24, 2022

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 12, 2021, letting families recover damages for grief and emotional distress when a spouse, parent or child dies by someone's wrongful act.

July 12, 2021

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 9, 2021, requiring landlords to carry at least $100,000 in liability insurance for people hurt on their property through the landlord's negligence.

July 9, 2021

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Voted against 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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Introduced a bill to ban discrimination in jobs, public places and credit against people who refuse vaccines, and to bar the governor from ordering vaccinations in an emergency. He filed it again in 2023, and both times a House committee held it.

February 26, 2021

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Won the House District 25 seat for Coventry and West Warwick on November 6, 2018, beating Republican Dorinne Albright 2,218 votes to 1,369.

November 6, 2018

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