Edith Ajello

Edith H. Ajello (D) has served the residents of the East Side of Providence since first being elected in November 1992. She represents the constituents of District 1, which was District 3 before the redistricting process that took effect in 2013. Representative Ajello is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Oversight Committee, and the House State Government and Elections Committee. Representative Ajello has been a strong proponent of protecting individuals' privacy and human rights. She was instrumental in the 2019 passage of the Reproductive Privacy Act , which protected reproductive rights in Rhode Island when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade in 2022, and she cosponsored the 2023 law that eliminated bans on abortion coverage for Medicaid recipients and state employees. She also sponsored legislation, later included in the 2020 state budget bill , to exempt feminine hygiene products from the state sales tax. She sponsored the 2001 law that prohibited housing discrimination based on gender identity or expression, as well as a 2021 update that made it applicable to all housing. In 2023, she sponsored legislation to formalize wider state protections…