Peter A. Appollonio, Jr.

Voted for setting 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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Sponsored a law, signed on June 22, 2026, requiring pharmacy benefit managers to get a state certificate to operate and letting the health insurance commissioner oversee and penalize them.

June 22, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for a program requiring owners of buildings of 25,000 square feet or more to report their energy use. It passed the Senate 33-5.

June 10, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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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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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 for raising the per-barrel oil spill fee from 5 to 10 cents and using 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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Voted for requiring public access to information on lead water service lines and setting rules for replacing them. It passed the Senate 29-5.

June 4, 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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Voted for ending payday lending in Rhode Island by repealing the law that allows it, starting in 2027. It passed the Senate 28-6.

June 20, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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

June 11, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for setting 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 for repealing the ban on public employee union contracts naming a specific health care provider. It passed the Senate 29-7.

May 28, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for widening who counts as an employee under the state labor relations law and letting the labor board award interest and attorney's fees. It passed the Senate 29-5.

June 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for requiring public employers to give unions a list of the employees they represent at least every 120 days. It passed the Senate 28-5.

June 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a bill adding Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Washington's Birthday to the holidays covered by the state's rules on work on Sundays and holidays. It passed the Senate on June 4, 2025, and did not pass the House.

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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Voted for keeping a firefighters' union contract in force until a new contract or arbitration award is reached. It passed the Senate 30-5.

May 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for keeping a municipal police union's contract terms in force until a new contract or arbitration award is reached. It passed the Senate 30-5.

May 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Introduced a bill on March 14, 2025, to give casino workers overtime pay for working Sundays and holidays. A Senate committee held it for further study.

March 14, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Introduced a bill on March 7, 2025, to add probation and parole officers to the state law enforcement retirement group. A Senate committee held it for further study; he filed it again in 2026.

March 7, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 10, 2026, that updated state licensing for barbers, hairdressers and related trades, including electronic notices and matching renewal dates.

June 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 30, 2025, letting the state health director approve or deny professional license applications when a licensing board has lacked a quorum for 30 business days.

June 30, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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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 for barring 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 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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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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Voted for letting security officers at private colleges detain someone they believe committed a crime on campus. It passed the Senate 29-8.

June 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for 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.

June 3, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced a bill on January 9, 2026, to require arming campus police at public colleges and to cover them under the police officers' bill of rights. A Senate committee held it for further study.

January 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on July 2, 2025, requiring each school committee to set up a school safety and behavioral health committee.

July 2, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for making 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 for 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, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for letting 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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Voted for 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, 2026Supports 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 for changing how the state's affordable housing law defines local needs, including for towns whose zoning requires at least half of new homes to be affordable. It passed the Senate 26-11.

June 18, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 18, 2026, that waived the driver's education fee at the Community College of Rhode Island for young people in foster or adoptive homes.

June 18, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored a law, which took effect on July 2, 2025, requiring each school committee to set up a school safety and behavioral health committee.

July 2, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for letting medication abortion labels show the name of the prescriber's practice instead of the prescriber. It passed the Senate 33-5.

June 4, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Introduced a bill on January 9, 2026, to exempt small Bitcoin sales, up to $5,000 a month, from state income tax. A Senate committee held it for further study; he filed a similar bill in 2025.

January 9, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for 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, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for the Freedom to Read Act, which bars censoring library books and calls for a model policy on library materials. It passed the Senate 31-5.

June 20, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for making it simpler to get on the permanent mail ballot list. It passed the Senate 29-5.

June 18, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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

June 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 22, 2026, requiring pharmacy benefit managers to get a state certificate to operate and letting the health insurance commissioner oversee and penalize them.

June 22, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Introduced a bill on January 23, 2026, to widen the list of unfair insurance claim practices and confirm a policyholder's right to sue for bad faith. A Senate committee held it for further study.

January 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for ending payday lending in Rhode Island by repealing the law that allows it, starting in 2027. It passed the Senate 28-6.

June 20, 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

Source: legiscan.com

Voted for making traffic crash data a public record, subject to federal law. It passed the Senate 33-5.

June 10, 2026

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Sponsored a law, signed on June 10, 2026, requiring firefighters and police officers hurt off duty to show they reasonably believed an emergency needed their help before getting injury benefits.

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. Voted the same way on June 20, 2025.

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 cutting the cigarette tax by 75 percent for tobacco products the federal government authorizes as lower-risk. It passed the Senate 24-14.

June 4, 2026

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for letting car insurers set rates by the ZIP code where a car is kept, starting in July 2027. It passed the Senate 30-8.

June 4, 2026

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

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

Voted for classroom safety rules on removing students from class and how schools respond. It passed the Senate 32-5.

May 28, 2026

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Was endorsed by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO for the 2026 primary election for Senate District 29, on a list posted May 5, 2026.

May 5, 2026

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Voted for confirming Stefan Pryor as the state's secretary of commerce. It passed the Senate 28-7.

March 31, 2026

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted against a bill changing the definitions and approval process for low- and moderate-income housing. It passed the Senate 20-15.

June 20, 2025

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

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

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

Source: legiscan.com

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

Source: legiscan.com

Voted for a floor-amended bill on state support and intervention for struggling schools (the Paul W. Crowley Student Investment Initiative). It passed the Senate 27-10.

June 18, 2025

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for cutting the cigarette tax in half for tobacco products the federal government authorizes as lower-risk. It passed the Senate 26-11.

June 17, 2025

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for barring nurses who are not nurse anesthetists from giving certain anesthesia drugs, such as propofol, on their own. It passed the Senate 26-10.

June 12, 2025

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Voted for 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

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for updating the state's casino crime laws to cover online casino gambling and its age limits. It passed the Senate 24-11.

June 10, 2025

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Voted for letting cities and towns tax paid parking lots and garages, with the state collecting the tax for them. It passed the Senate 31-5.

June 3, 2025

Source: votes.rilegislature.gov

Introduced a bill on March 7, 2025, to limit the state's mandatory rental registry to homes built before 1978 and delay its deadlines. It did not get a committee vote.

March 7, 2025

Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov

Won the Rhode Island Senate District 29 seat in Warwick on November 5, 2024, defeating Republican Senator Anthony DeLuca II by 6,849 votes (50.1 percent) to 6,784.

November 5, 2024

Source: ri.gov

Was endorsed by the National Education Association Rhode Island, a teachers' union, for the Senate District 29 race, on a list released October 14, 2024.

October 14, 2024

Source: neari.org

Was promoted to captain in the West Warwick Police Department after 22 years of service, in a ceremony the Kent County Daily Times reported on April 30, 2017.

April 30, 2017

Source: ricentral.com