Alana DiMario

Alana M. DiMario is a Democrat representing District 36 (Narragansett, North Kingstown, New Shoreham) in the Rhode Island Senate. Since being elected to the Senate in November 2020, Sen. DiMario has advanced legislation across a wide range of policy areas, including small business, education, childcare, healthcare, and renewable energy. She previously served as chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment & Agriculture and has helped pass many bills to protect Rhode Island's environment. She sponsored the law creating the Renewable Ready program , which promotes solar development while protecting forests and ratepayers, as well as a law aimed at preventing the contamination of food, soil, and groundwater at farms by so-called “forever chemicals," or PFAS. Sen. DiMario has sponsored legislation, now law, to give parents more insight and control in charges to their child's individualized education plan (IEP) and set the wheels in motion for a much-needed overhaul of the state's IEP regulations ; codify federally mandated school 504 plans in state law; elevate educator and parent voices in educational decisions; and increase the maximum post-retirement employment earnings cap…