Jason Knight

Jason Knight (D) has represented District 67 in Barrington and Warren since first being elected in November 2016. He was named a Deputy Majority Leader in January 2021. Representative Knight is the first vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee and is a member of the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee and the House State Government and Elections Committee. Representative Knight has sponsored and cosponsored numerous measures for firearms safety, including the 2025 law to ban the sale of assault weapons in Rhode Island. He was the sponsor of the law passed in 2021 to ban “ straw purchases ," the buying or procuring weapons on behalf of someone who is legally prohibited from possessing them. He cosponsored the law prohibiting high-capacity gun magazines , as well as laws requiring safe storage of firearms, banning bump stocks and modifications to make semi-automatic weapons work like fully automatic weapons, and ensuring gun sales applications are reviewed by the police in the purchaser's own community . He has sponsored numerous efforts for criminal justice reform, including a 2022 law that eliminated court fees for many Rhode Islanders to prevent fees from…