Elaine J. Morgan is a Republican representing District 34 (Charlestown,
Exeter, Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich) in the Rhode Island
Senate. First elected to the Senate in November 2014, Senator Morgan
currently serves as Deputy Minority Whip.
Sen. Morgan is currently
a member of the Senate Committee on Special Legislation & Veterans'
Affairs and the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services. She
previously served as a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce and
the Senate Committee on Education. She also served as the Senate
Minority Whip from June 2019 through January 2021.
Sen. Morgan
previously served three terms as Hopkinton's first female elected Town
Sergeant.
During her time in the General Assembly, Sen. Morgan has
acted to address the issue of human trafficking. She was the Senate
sponsor of a 2015 law increasing penalties for engaging in sex
trafficking of minors. She has cosponsored legislation to put a
line-item veto before voters as a constitutional amendment, as well as a
bill that would require businesses in Rhode Island with three or more
employees to participate in the federal E-Verify program.
Sen.
Morgan created a licensing program and set minimum standards for pump
installers and commercial and residential water filtration/treatment
system contractors. She has introduced legislation to eliminate all
state income tax on social security income and includes protecting and
strengthening the rights of parents and students in her legislative
priorities.
In 2015, Sen. Morgan was appointed to the Rhode
Island Commission on Women & Girls. She was named a “Friend of Small
Business" for the 2015-16 legislative session by the NFIB (National
Federation of Independent Business). She has been awarded as the
top-rated Senator for protecting and preserving individual and
constitutional freedom and liberties by CPAC and The RI Center for
Freedom and Prosperity from 2014 - 2022.
Sen. Morgan was the 2019
winner of the Middendorf Pillar of Freedom Award and received a
Conservative Achievement Award in 2020 from The American Conservative
Union Foundation.
A lifelong Rhode Islander, Sen. Morgan is an
entrepreneur and small business owner of Ashaway Dry Cleaning. She is a
member of Our Lady of Victory Church in Ashaway and a former foster
parent.
She and her late husband, Edward, have two children and
two grandchildren.