Brandon Potter

Brandon Potter was first elected in 2020 to represent the people of District 16, which encomapasses the Garden City, Eden Park, and Stadium neighborhoods in Cranston. Representative Potter serves as Second Vice Chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee is a member of the House Corporations Committee and the House Labor Committee. In the 2025 legislative session, Representative Potter sponsored a new law that created a three-year pilot program prohibiting insurers from requiring prior authorization for medically necessary health care services ordered by patients' primary care providers. The pilot aims to remove a roadblock that slows down patient care and consumes hours of primary care providers' and their staffs' time each day. Representative Potter has also sponsored a new law requiring construction projects worth more than $10 million that receive state tax credits through the Rebuild RI or historic preservation programs to pay their construction workers the prevailing wage . He was the sponsor of legislation, later included in the state budget bill, seeking an investment of $250 million in school construction , which voters approved in 2022. He successfully…