Representative Brandon Potter
Second Vice Chair, House Health and Human Services Committee
Member, House Corporations Committee
Member, House Labor Committee
Member, House Special Legislation Committee
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 currently serves on the
House Corporations Committee, the House Committee on Labor, the House
Committee on Special Legislation, and as Second Vice Chair of the House
Committee on Health and Human Services.
Representative Potter sponsored legislation enacted in 2022 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 sponsored legislation passed in 2022 to increase transparency
around
affordable housing development, sponsored a law that
permanently requires the state to analyze
overdose deaths to help identify ways to reduce their prevalence,
and sponsored a low to reduce the time health insurance companies are
allowed to clawback payments to behavioral and mental health care
providers.
Representative Potter also cosponsored laws to authorize
a pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm
reduction centers, prohibit housing discrimination
based on source
of income,
and raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. Another bill he sponsored would
add a new
tax bracket for the richest 1 percent of Rhode Islanders as
an equitable means to generate much-needed state revenue.
Born August 6, 1984, he grew up in Cranston and went to Cranston West
High School. He attended Community College of Rhode Island and graduated
magna cum laude from Rhode Island College. He has nearly a decade
of experience in the automobile industry, and is
currently studying at Roger Williams University School of Law.