Todd M. Patalano

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 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 bill changing State Police pensions so a trooper retiring after 20 years gets half of salary, plus 3 percent a year after that, up to 65 percent. It passed the Senate on June 11, 2026.

June 11, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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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 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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Introduced a bill on January 30, 2026, to require people asking for public records to identify themselves, ending anonymous requests. A Senate committee held it.

January 30, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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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 Senate 28-7.

June 20, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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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 against barring state and local agencies from voluntarily helping with federal civil immigration enforcement. It passed the Senate 30-8.

June 3, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Sponsored six acts, which took effect on June 26, 2026, letting Cranston ask voters in November 2026 to approve up to $51 million in bonds. The money covers $25 million for schools, $8 million each for streets and for fire and public safety equipment, $4 million each for playgrounds and storm drains, and $2 million for public buildings.

June 26, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored a bill changing State Police pensions so a trooper retiring after 20 years gets half of salary, plus 3 percent a year after that, up to 65 percent. It passed the Senate on June 11, 2026.

June 11, 2026Opposes 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 bill letting security officers at private colleges detain someone they believe committed a crime on campus. It passed the Senate 29-8 on June 9, 2026.

June 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a bill requiring every school to have a safety plan giving police and other first responders immediate access to buildings in an emergency. It passed the Senate 33-5 on June 3, 2026.

June 3, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a bill making it a felony when two or more people team up to shoplift. It passed the Senate 31-7 on June 3, 2026.

June 3, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill on March 5, 2026, to make taking part in a street takeover a felony with fines of $1,000 to $5,000. A Senate committee held it.

March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 24, 2025, that created the crime of attempted kidnapping of a minor.

June 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 13, 2025, that created the statewide Purple Alert system to help find missing adults with serious disabilities or medical conditions.

June 13, 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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Sponsored a bill making it a felony for a registered sex offender to live within 300 feet of a school. It passed the Senate on June 12, 2025, and again on March 31, 2026, but did not become law.

June 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against 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, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against making 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, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against letting people with several past convictions ask a court to clear (expunge) their records. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 17, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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

June 20, 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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Sponsored a bill making children of National Guard members in good standing eligible for tuition help. It passed the Senate on June 4, 2025, and again on May 5, 2026, but did not become law.

June 4, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Spoke against the proposed assault weapons ban at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 14, 2025.

May 14, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Sponsored a law, signed on July 2, 2025, that raised the most voters a polling place may serve from 3,000 to 3,500.

July 2, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 17, 2025, that lets the Board of Elections count mail ballots in local special elections the same way it does in statewide elections.

June 17, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, to exempt all Social Security income from state income tax starting in 2027. A Senate committee held it; he filed a similar bill in 2025.

January 23, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted against letting 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, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Sponsored six acts, which took effect on June 26, 2026, letting Cranston ask voters in November 2026 to approve up to $51 million in bonds. The money covers $25 million for schools, $8 million each for streets and for fire and public safety equipment, $4 million each for playgrounds and storm drains, and $2 million for public buildings.

June 26, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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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

Source: legiscan.com

Sponsored a law, which took effect on June 26, 2026, that lets Cranston turn some property tax exemptions into tax credits.

June 26, 2026

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on June 26, 2026, that changed the filing fees to appeal certain District Court decisions.

June 26, 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

Source: legiscan.com

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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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

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

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Sponsored a bill requiring town and city auctions of real estate to be held in person, not online, unless a court allows it. It passed the Senate 25-9 on April 28, 2026.

April 28, 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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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 Senate 23-10.

June 21, 2025

Source: legiscan.com

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

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

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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

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

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 bill barring cities, towns and utilities from charging farms for water lines extended past their land. It passed the Senate on June 4, 2025, and again on May 27, 2026.

June 4, 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

Source: legiscan.com

Won the November 5, 2024 election for Rhode Island Senate District 26 with 7,853 votes to 5,744 for Republican Jennifer Caputi.

November 5, 2024

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Served as the independent member of a three-person police discipline hearing board that voted 2-1 on August 6, 2024 to uphold the State Police's firing of a trooper over false truck inspection reports. He cast the deciding vote.

August 6, 2024

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Filed a federal lawsuit in August 2014 against Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, former Police Chief Marco Palombo and other city officials, saying they tried to damage his career after he was put on leave in 2012. The city settled with him for $300,000 on September 17, 2015, with neither side admitting wrongdoing.

September 17, 2015

Source: wpri.com