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David Bennett

David Bennett

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State Representative

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Office
State Representative
State
Rhode Island
Jurisdiction
20
Serving
Currently serving
Term
2011 - Present

David A. Bennett (D) has served District 20 (Warwick, Cranston) since first being elected in November 2010. A psychiatric nurse, Representative Bennett is the chairman of the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee and is a member of the House Health and Human Services Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Quahog Joint Legislative Commission. As a now-retired psychiatric nurse, he has been very active on health care and addiction issues, serving as co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Commission to Study the Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health and sponsoring many bills related to health. In 2023, he led the charge on tackling the state's short staffing crisis by raising wages for group home and nursing home workers and incentivizing employers to hire full-time nurses rather than travel nurses. In recent years, he has successfully passed legislation enhancing the requirements that people with knowledge of mistreatment or neglect of elders report it to authorities, ensuring antitrust law compliance in hospital conversions, and creating an exemption in regulations about FDA-regulated substances so students can have and use sunscreen at school . As…

Biography source: official page

Issue Activity

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Energy
1 stored vote · 0 yea · 0 nay

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  • David Bennett holds the office of State Representative
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  • Voted yes on SB 3357: AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CRANSTON TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, DEMOLITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, RENOVATION, REPAIR, ALTERATION, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE CITY BY THE ISSUANCE OF NOT MORE THAN $2,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND NOTES THEREFOR
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-06-11source
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  • Voted yes on HB 8580: AN ACT RELATING TO THE NORTH TIVERTON FIRE DISTRICT
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-06-10source
    Verified
  • Voted yes on HB 8586: AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY
    roll-call vote· Official roll-call record· 2026-06-09source
    Verified
  • Sponsored: AN ACT RELATING TO THE NORTH TIVERTON FIRE DISTRICT
    sponsored/co-sponsored bill· Congress.gov· 2026-05-22source
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