About this candidate
Kathleen A Fogarty represents House District 35 · South Kingstown.
At a glance
Democratic incumbent in the 2026 candidate roster.
How to read this page
Campaign positions, election returns, campaign finance and outside scorecards are labeled by source and period.
Campaign priorities
No campaign priorities are currently recorded for this candidate in RIEP’s research. This section will be updated after verification.
Past electoral performance
Districtwide general election results. Select a year to open RIEP’s results map.
Democratic primary history
Primary returns are under construction. No primary vote total is assigned from a different race.
League of Women Voters · 2026 voter guide
The supplied October 2026 South County guide covers selected Chariho-area races. This candidate is not included in that regional guide.
Campaign finance snapshot
2026 28-days-before-election · July 1, 2026 to October 5, 2026
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Record in office · 2025–2026 General Assembly
Incumbent · Descriptive counts from RIEP’s official-source research. They are separate from the historical Lawmakers Project score below.
Session attendance
Presence recorded in official House Journals. “Not Voting” on a floor vote is not treated as an absence. Attendance rate is a percentage.
- Leadership
- First Assistant Speaker
- Committees
- House Environment and Natural Resources Committee · House Health and Human Services Committee · House Municipal Government and Housing Committee — First Vice Chair · House Rules Committee — Chair
Official committee roster · Dataset updated August 30, 2026.
Vote-based ideology
How Kathleen A Fogarty’s recorded votes compare with other representatives. This feature is under construction and measures voting patterns, not legislative effectiveness.
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How this is calculated
One-dimensional W-NOMINATE estimates positions from 450 divided roll calls in 91 official House journals. Similar positions indicate similar voting patterns in this vote set. Party labels color the points; they are not used to estimate the positions. The positive direction is anchored to Michael Chippendale; zero is not a calibrated ideological center.
Coverage ends June 11, 2026. Named votes reconcile with printed totals in all 1,210 extracted binary roll calls. Missing votes and recusals are not counted as Nay. Annual fits are separately scaled and cannot measure ideological change directly. House and Senate coordinates are not directly comparable.
This experimental analysis is separate from CEL’s Legislative Effectiveness Score and RIEP’s Legislative Progress Index. View all representatives and methodology → · Official House journals ↗
Bills & votes
Kathleen A Fogarty’s 43 lead-sponsored bills in the 2025–2026 General Assembly, from RIEP’s official-source research. Passage and law status reflect the recorded snapshot; “Not recorded” does not describe the current disposition of a bill.
Lead-sponsored records · 2025–2026 43 records
| Bill | Year | Passed chamber | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|
| H5255 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5430 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5442 | 2025 | Yes | Not recorded |
| H5491 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5494 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H5497 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5526 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5654 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5660 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5686 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H5698 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H5703 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H5723 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H5731 | 2025 | Yes | Not recorded |
| H5738 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5747 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5888 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H5984 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H6119 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H6157 | 2025 | Yes | Yes |
| H6400 | 2025 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7276 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7355 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7450 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7481 | 2026 | Yes | Yes |
| H7486 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7498 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7503 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7548 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7554 | 2026 | Yes | Not recorded |
| H7588 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7686 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7704 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7720 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7721 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7754 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7795 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H7976 | 2026 | Yes | Yes |
| H8080 | 2026 | Yes | Not recorded |
| H8164 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H8165 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| H8365 | 2026 | Yes | Not recorded |
| H8389 | 2026 | Not recorded | Not recorded |
Source: RIEP research using Rhode Island General Assembly bill-status records, August 30, 2026 snapshot.
Outside ratings & scorecards
Each organization uses its own methodology. RIEP does not combine these into an overall candidate score.
Center for Effective Lawmaking
Historical score covering the 2023–2024 legislative session. It does not measure Kathleen A Fogarty’s 2025–2026 record.
The party rank compares this legislator with other members of the same party in the same chamber. CEL’s expectations label uses a separate benchmark that accounts for party status, seniority and committee leadership. “Meets Expectations” means a score between 50% and 150% of that benchmark; it does not mean an average party rank. How CEL defines expectations ↗
View full legislative effectiveness details
The score weights advancement by bill significance. The expected benchmark accounts for comparable legislators’ party status, seniority and committee leadership.
| Category | Bills introduced | Committee action | Beyond committee | Passed chamber | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commemorative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Substantive | 34 | 34 | 12 | 12 | 7 |
| Substantive and significant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Historical scores
2023–2024 · 1.16 · Party rank 24 of 66
2021–2022 · 1.68 · Party rank 12 of 65
2019–2020 · 0.24 · Party rank 61 of 68
2017–2018 · 0.88 · Party rank 37 of 64
2015–2016 · 0.89 · Party rank 37 of 64
Produced by the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, not by RIEP. Source report ↗ · Methodology ↗ · Glossary ↗
Experimental RIEP calculation · 2025–2026
Current-session House index under construction. The current dataset contains 67 of 75 House district records; a chamber-average score is not published until complete chamber totals can be verified.
Compare RIEP and CEL for the complete 2023–2024 dataset →This is the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns' score, not an RIEP assessment. Denominators below nine reflect absences, recusals, or other non-votes in the League's published scorecard. Source report ↗
The ACLU selected these votes to highlight civil-liberties issues. An aligned vote matches its stated position; an opposed vote does not. The selection does not cover every relevant bill or capture committee and floor leadership, so RIEP does not convert it into an overall grade.
This is an ACLU of Rhode Island voting record, not an RIEP score or endorsement. RIEP displays the underlying organization-selected record without converting it into a percentage, grade, rank, or aggregate candidate rating. The ACLU states that its selected votes do not cover every bill with civil-liberties implications and do not capture committee or floor leadership. Source report ↗
Endorsements
Published endorsements from outside organizations. Select an organization to view its endorsement source.
2026 election · House District 35
2026 election · House District 35
2026 election · House District 35
2026 election · House District 35
2026 election · House District 35
Outside organizations’ endorsements, not RIEP endorsements. Sources may include organization lists and voter-guide records.
Under construction
This candidate profile is still under construction. Additional information will appear as it is verified.