Kevin Avard

Sponsored bills

• SB669: relative to on-premises licenses for licensed barbershops and salons.
• SB441: (New Title) relative to the financial responsibility for local assistance and enabling municipalities to request a hearing regarding the residency of an assisted person.
• SB542: (New Title) limiting the game dates available to charities at gaming facilities.
• HB1198: establishing the paint product stewardship program.
• SB647: authorizing the department of insurance to participate in a cooperative procurement group via an intergovernmental agreement for a prescription drug discount program.
• HB1638: creating a bypass mechanism for health insurer step therapy protocols when medically necessary.
• SB410: relative to possession of human remains for law enforcement training purposes.
• SB467: relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses and establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.
• HB303: relative to requiring the department of labor review and adopt workers' occupational safety requirements that are similar to OSHA standards.
• HB580: relative to retaliatory defamation in domestic violence and sexual violence cases. (primary sponsor)
• HB224: relative to rebates to ratepayers from the renewable energy fund.
• SB112: relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities. (primary sponsor)
• HB1653: relative to emergency medical care provided at freestanding hospital emergency facilities.
• SB501: relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse.
• SB431: relative to violations of the prohibition on teaching discrimination.
• HB609: relative to the general court's authority over the sale, purchase, ownership, use, possession, transportation, licensing, permitting, taxation, and other matter pertaining to firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools.
• HCR11: declaring the directives of the judicial branch in the Claremont cases that the legislative and executive branches define an "adequate education," adopt "standards of accountability," and "guarantee adequate funding" of a public education are not binding on the legislative and executive branches.
• HB1442: (New Title) permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
• HB1097: requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.
• SB535: (New Title) defining residential breeder and imported animal for the purposes of animal transfers and removing references to commercial kennels.