David P. Tikoian

Introduced a bill on March 19, 2025, barring health providers and insurers from refusing to pay a medical bill only because it may come from a car crash or other third-party claim. It was held in committee.

March 19, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to ban plants that burn or chemically break down waste and plastics into fuel at the Quonset industrial park until June 2027. It passed the Senate 29-9.

June 10, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill on March 5, 2026, freezing the state energy conservation building code at the 2024 standard until 2031 unless lawmakers approve changes. It was held in committee.

March 5, 2026Opposes 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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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 6, 2025, requiring full-time lifeguards and park rangers to be trained to give overdose-reversal drugs, and public beaches to keep at least four doses on hand.

June 6, 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 Senate 27-7.

May 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 22, 2026, keeping a local police union contract in force until a new contract or an arbitration award is reached.

June 22, 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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Voted for covering domestic workers in private homes under the state minimum wage law. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 13, 2024Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a bill repealing the ban on public employee union contracts that name a specific health insurance company. It passed the Senate 31-6 on April 30, 2024.

April 30, 2024Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for raising job-protected parental and family medical leave from 13 to 24 weeks. It passed the Senate 30-6.

March 21, 2024Supports Labor Rights

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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 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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Introduced a resolution on January 23, 2025, to give $250,000 to the Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for requiring one full-time school social worker for every 250 students, with $2 million in state aid. It passed the Senate 31-5.

June 14, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored Casey's Law, enacted on June 22, 2026, which adds an extra penalty for road rage to certain driving crimes involving aggressive or threatening behavior.

June 22, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 19, 2026, making day camp and overnight camp staff legally responsible for reporting and preventing child abuse and neglect like other caregivers.

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 bill making squatting in a home a crime, with fines up to $1,000 or a year in jail, and giving owners ways to remove squatters. It passed the Senate as amended 28-9 on May 28, 2026.

May 28, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced the Matthew O'Gara Act on January 23, 2026, setting at least 10 years in prison for leaving the scene of a crash that kills someone. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, making an assault on a sports official during a game a felony. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on July 3, 2025, requiring police officers who prosecute protective order violations in court to first complete special domestic violence training.

July 3, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 26, 2025, making it a crime to threaten election officials and poll workers.

June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 26, 2025, requiring video cameras on school buses to catch drivers who illegally pass them, on all new buses by 2027 and all buses by 2032.

June 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced the Charlotte A. Vacca Act on January 23, 2025, requiring vehicle barriers at new retail stores and insurance discounts for installing them. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 26, 2024, setting up state licensing rules for youth camps.

June 26, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 19, 2023, adding lessons on the dangers of driving while high on marijuana to driver education courses.

June 19, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 12, 2023, requiring drivers to move over or slow down when passing any vehicle stopped on the side of a road or highway.

June 12, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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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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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 25, 2024, defining manufactured homes and letting some count as single-family homes on lots zoned for them.

June 25, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 24, 2023, raising the number of homes allowed per acre in projects under inclusionary zoning, plus other incentives to offset the cost of affordable units.

June 24, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a bill barring town zoning rules from limiting a household of unrelated people to fewer than one person per bedroom. It passed the Senate 31-4 on June 14, 2023.

June 14, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov · researched September 21, 2026

Introduced a resolution on January 23, 2025, to give $250,000 to the Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 19, 2026, guaranteeing admission to Rhode Island's public colleges for state residents who earn the Eagle Scout rank or the Girl Scout Gold Award.

June 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 10, 2026, requiring all public and private middle and high schools to keep working heart defibrillators and a cardiac emergency plan starting in 2027-2028.

June 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for requiring one full-time school social worker for every 250 students, with $2 million in state aid. It passed the Senate 31-5.

June 14, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2025, requiring police to send guns used in crimes and their shell casings for federal ballistic tracing. A committee approved an amended version on June 20, 2025, but it got no Senate vote.

January 23, 2025Supports Gun Control

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

June 6, 2024Supports 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 Senate 31-6.

June 13, 2024Supports 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.

May 18, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov · researched September 21, 2026

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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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 26, 2025, making it a crime to threaten election officials and poll workers.

June 26, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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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 Senate 31-6.

June 13, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for the Freedom to Read Act, which bars public libraries from removing books over partisan or doctrinal objections. It passed the Senate 31-6.

May 30, 2024Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 19, 2026, adding property damage to underinsured motorist car insurance coverage starting in April 2027.

June 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for giving the attorney general power to investigate and sue over repeated illegal conduct by businesses or government bodies. It passed the Senate 30-7.

June 13, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 23, 2025, letting Rhode Island's electric utility buy nuclear power, sign long-term contracts for it and join projects to bring it in.

June 23, 2025Supports 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

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 19, 2026, letting an authorized agent ask government agencies to keep a protected person's personal details private under the judicial security law.

June 19, 2026

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Sponsored a bill barring builders from seeking a single comprehensive permit for affordable housing in towns whose zoning requires half of new homes be affordable. It passed the Senate 34-3 on June 4, 2026.

June 4, 2026

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, eliminating Rhode Island's estate tax. It was held in committee.

January 23, 2026

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Sponsored a bill giving drivers who cancel their car registration early a credit for the unused time. The Assembly passed it, but Gov. Dan McKee vetoed it on July 2, 2025, citing costs to the state.

July 2, 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 Senate 23-10.

June 21, 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 bill counting a town as meeting its affordable housing needs if it requires half of the homes in every development to be affordable. It passed the Senate 26-11 on June 18, 2025.

June 18, 2025

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Sponsored a bill setting a licensing fee on private hospitals' patient revenue for the 2026 budget year. It passed the Senate 36-0 on June 4, 2025.

June 4, 2025

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Voted for Valarie Lawson for Senate president on April 29, 2025. She won with 24 votes to 8 for Ryan Pearson and 4 for Jessica de la Cruz.

April 29, 2025

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Was chosen by Senate President Dominick Ruggerio as Senate majority whip, the third-highest Senate post, announced January 2, 2025.

January 2, 2025

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Sponsored a law, enacted on June 25, 2024, letting police tactical teams use gun silencers on duty under the supervision of their chief or the State Police colonel.

June 25, 2024

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Voted for delaying cage-free housing rules for commercial egg-laying hens until 2030. The delay passed the Senate 29-7.

June 13, 2024

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Voted for requiring mail ballot drop boxes to open 35 days before an election. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 11, 2024

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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.

June 6, 2024

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Voted for letting unaffiliated voters vote in a party primary without joining the party. It passed the Senate 32-5.

June 6, 2024

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Introduced a bill on May 2, 2024, ending Bryant University's property tax exemption in Smithfield unless it reached a payment deal with the town by June 30, 2024. It was held in committee.

May 2, 2024

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Introduced a bill on March 22, 2024, giving appointed town police chiefs a hearing and due process before they can be fired. It was held in committee.

March 22, 2024

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Voted for raising campaign contribution limits for people and political action committees to $2,000 a year. It passed the Senate 22-15.

June 15, 2023

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Voted to extend the state's supervised drug-use center pilot by two years, to March 2026, and allow smoking of drugs inside the centers. It passed the Senate 34-4.

April 4, 2023

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Won a two-year seat on the Smithfield Town Council in November 2020 with 5,862 votes, the most ever for a council candidate in Smithfield.

December 9, 2020

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Was named North Providence police chief by Mayor Charles Lombardi on August 4, 2017, after retiring as a Rhode Island State Police major. He replaced an acting chief who was on suspension.

August 4, 2017

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