Eileen S. Naughton
Encyclopedia
Eileen Slattery Naughton, is an American consultant and politician from Warwick, Rhode Island
. A Democrat
, she serves in the Rhode Island House of Representatives
, representing the 21st district, which contains the neighborhoods of Conimicut
, Hoxsie
, and parts of Hillsgrove
, including the T.F. Green Airport. She was first elected to the House of Representatives November 3, 1992 and was most recently reelected on November 2, 2010 for a tenth term.
on 29 December 1945. She attended St. Mary Academy - Bay View
in the Riverside
neighborhood of East Providence, Rhode Island
before attending Annhurst College
in South Woodstock, Connecticut
graduating with a BA degree in 1967. She earned a law degree from the Southern New England School of Law
. Naughton has been active in her community in various capacities, serving on the Board of Directors for: Warwick Chamber of Commerce, the Warwick Historical Society, the Warwick Arts Foundation, the Gaspee Days Committee, the Conimicut Village Association, the Ocean State Lyric Opera, TechACCESS, and the Ocean State Business Development Corporation. Naughton and her husband William C. Naughton reside in the Conimicut
neighborhood of Warwick at the historic Lockwood Brook Farm, where they raise heritage breed
livestock and poultry. She has two children, Christine and William, and six grandchildren.
Beginning in January 1993, Naughton served on the Judiciary committee with a four-year tenure on that committee. She has been serving on the Finance Committee since 1997, and was selected to serve as the chairperson of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in 2005. Additionally in 2005, she was selected as a Council of State Governments
Henry Toll Fellow, and was appointed as chairperson of the Rules Committee.
In addition to being a long-standing member of the Environment & Natural Resources Committee, Naughton has served on a number of committees and commissions focusing on natural resources and environmental issues. Between 1997 and 2004, she was appointed to serve as a Legislative Commissioner on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
, and as a member of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. She served as chairperson of the Legislative Commission on Aquaculture Development (1995–1998), chairperson of the Legislative Commission to Develop and Coordinate a Collaborative Effort to Formulate a Restoration Plan for the North Cape
Barge Oil Spill (1999), and chairperson of the Narragansett Bay Trust Study Commission (2003–2004).
She also has served on the Rhode Island Commission on Women, the RI Agricultural Lands Preservation Commission and the RI Economic Policy Council.
Naughton has also engaged in health care policy issues, serving since 2006 as chairperson of a legislative commission to study blood banking of umbilical cord blood in support of adult stem cell
research. Since 2008, she has been engaged in national health care policy issues by serving on the Director's Council of Public Representatives for the National Institutes of Health
.
During the 2009-10 session of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
she serves as the Chairperson of the Rules Committee, Chairperson of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the Finance Committee, as well as serving on the Environment and Natural Resources, and Labor Committees.
Warwick, Rhode Island
Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 82,672 at the 2010 census. Its mayor has been Scott Avedisian since 2000...
. A Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
, she serves in the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Rhode Island House of Representatives
The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Rhode Island. It is composed of 75 members, elected to two year terms from 75 districts of equal population. The Rhode Island General Assembly does not have...
, representing the 21st district, which contains the neighborhoods of Conimicut
Conimicut, Rhode Island
-Geography:It is at latitude 41.724 and longitude -71.383 with an average elevation of 46 feet. Conimicut appears on the East Greenwich U.S. Geological Survey Map ....
, Hoxsie
Hoxsie, Rhode Island
Hoxsie is the largest section in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island. At the center of the city, bordered by Airport Road and Warwick Avenue, the area is adjacent to T. F. Green Airport, Rhode Island's primary airport....
, and parts of Hillsgrove
Hillsgrove, Rhode Island
Hillsgrove is an area in western central Warwick, Rhode Island. The area was established as a farming hamlet and later a mill village, but today it is dominated by the presence of T. F. Green Airport, Rhode Island's largest and most important airport. Leviton Manufacturing operated a large factory...
, including the T.F. Green Airport. She was first elected to the House of Representatives November 3, 1992 and was most recently reelected on November 2, 2010 for a tenth term.
Biography
Eileen S. Naughton was born in Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
on 29 December 1945. She attended St. Mary Academy - Bay View
St. Mary Academy - Bay View
St. Mary Academy – Bay View is an all-girls Catholic School grades k-12 located in Riverside, Rhode Island. It was founded by the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1874. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence.-History:St...
in the Riverside
Riverside, Rhode Island
Riverside, Rhode Island is the southern section of the city of East Providence in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Riverside's zip code is 02915 and has a population of approximately 18,000.Riverside is a suburban neighborhood for Providence...
neighborhood of East Providence, Rhode Island
East Providence, Rhode Island
East Providence is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 47,037 at the 2010 census, making it the fifth largest city in the state.-Geography:East Providence is located at ....
before attending Annhurst College
Annhurst College
Annhurst College was a private Catholic college in South Woodstock, Connecticut. The college's curriculum was career-focused.It was founded by Mother Louis du Sacré-Coeur, D.H.S., the Provincial of the American Province of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in 1940 as an all women's college...
in South Woodstock, Connecticut
South Woodstock, Connecticut
South Woodstock is a census-designated place in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,211 at the 2000 census.It is notable as the former home of the now-defunct Annhurst College.-Geography:...
graduating with a BA degree in 1967. She earned a law degree from the Southern New England School of Law
Southern New England School of Law
Southern New England School of Law was a non-profit law school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts that operated from 1981 to 2010...
. Naughton has been active in her community in various capacities, serving on the Board of Directors for: Warwick Chamber of Commerce, the Warwick Historical Society, the Warwick Arts Foundation, the Gaspee Days Committee, the Conimicut Village Association, the Ocean State Lyric Opera, TechACCESS, and the Ocean State Business Development Corporation. Naughton and her husband William C. Naughton reside in the Conimicut
Conimicut, Rhode Island
-Geography:It is at latitude 41.724 and longitude -71.383 with an average elevation of 46 feet. Conimicut appears on the East Greenwich U.S. Geological Survey Map ....
neighborhood of Warwick at the historic Lockwood Brook Farm, where they raise heritage breed
Rare breed (agriculture)
A rare breed is defined as a breed of livestock or poultry that is not common in modern agriculture, though it may have been in the past. Various national and international organizations, such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy or the Rare Breeds...
livestock and poultry. She has two children, Christine and William, and six grandchildren.
Politics and public service
Naughton was first elected to the House of Representatives 2 November 1992 from District 32, defeating incumbent Michael McEntee in the Democratic primary and Republican Arthur F. Chapman by a margin of 73% to 27% in the general election. Upon downsizing of the House of Representatives from 100 to 75 members in the 2002 election, Naughton ran unopposed and was elected to the 21st District. Naughton was most recently reelected on 2 November 2010 defeating Moderate Party challenger Richard L. Lavallee by a margin of 62.1% to 37.9%, winning in all seven of her precincts.Beginning in January 1993, Naughton served on the Judiciary committee with a four-year tenure on that committee. She has been serving on the Finance Committee since 1997, and was selected to serve as the chairperson of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in 2005. Additionally in 2005, she was selected as a Council of State Governments
Council of State Governments
The Council of State Governments is a nonpartisan non-profit organization in the United States serving the state governments. It serves state legislatures, state courts, and executive branch officials and agencies, and is the only multi-branch organization of state governments in the United...
Henry Toll Fellow, and was appointed as chairperson of the Rules Committee.
In addition to being a long-standing member of the Environment & Natural Resources Committee, Naughton has served on a number of committees and commissions focusing on natural resources and environmental issues. Between 1997 and 2004, she was appointed to serve as a Legislative Commissioner on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is a commission of U.S. states formed to coordinate and manage fishery resources — including marine fish, shellfish, and anadromous fish - along the Atlantic coast of the United States.The Commission was formed by the 15 Atlantic coast states in...
, and as a member of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. She served as chairperson of the Legislative Commission on Aquaculture Development (1995–1998), chairperson of the Legislative Commission to Develop and Coordinate a Collaborative Effort to Formulate a Restoration Plan for the North Cape
North Cape oil spill
The North Cape Oil Spill occurred on January 19, 1996 when the tank barge North Cape and the tug Scandia grounded on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island after the tug caught fire in its engine room during a winter storm. An estimated 828,000 gallons of home heating oil was spilled...
Barge Oil Spill (1999), and chairperson of the Narragansett Bay Trust Study Commission (2003–2004).
She also has served on the Rhode Island Commission on Women, the RI Agricultural Lands Preservation Commission and the RI Economic Policy Council.
Naughton has also engaged in health care policy issues, serving since 2006 as chairperson of a legislative commission to study blood banking of umbilical cord blood in support of adult stem cell
Adult stem cell
Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells, found throughout the body after embryonic development, that multiply by cell division to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues...
research. Since 2008, she has been engaged in national health care policy issues by serving on the Director's Council of Public Representatives for the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
.
During the 2009-10 session of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Rhode Island House of Representatives
The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Rhode Island. It is composed of 75 members, elected to two year terms from 75 districts of equal population. The Rhode Island General Assembly does not have...
she serves as the Chairperson of the Rules Committee, Chairperson of the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the Finance Committee, as well as serving on the Environment and Natural Resources, and Labor Committees.
Selected legislation as enacted
- 1998-H8308 An Act Relating to Fish and Wildlife—Aquaculture: This legislation created a biosecurityBiosecurityBiosecurity is a set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of transmission of infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive alien species, living modified organisms...
board to assist in carrying out the provisions of aquacultureAquacultureAquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants. Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the...
laws and regulations dealing with diseases among aquatic organisms, introduced speciesIntroduced speciesAn introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
, and quarantineQuarantineQuarantine is compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian quarantena, meaning forty-day period....
of aquatic organisms. - 1998-H8816 An Aquaculture Act: This legislation was designed to develop and promote Rhode Island's aquacultureAquacultureAquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants. Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the...
industry by creating a "one-stop" permitting process and by designating the Coastal Resources Management Council as the lead agency for the regulation of aquaculture and by creating various mechanisms to assist individuals in the establishment and maintenance of aquaculture projects. - 2004-H8359aaa The Rhode Island Bays, Rivers, and Watersheds Coordination Team: This legislation established the Rhode Island bays, rivers, and watershedsDrainage basinA drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
coordination team to provide interagency coordination in the management, restoration, protection, and sustainable economic developmentSustainable developmentSustainable development is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come...
of the state’s bays, rivers, estuaries, and watersheds. - 2005-H5182 Student Vision Health Act: This legislation required the department of health to establish a school vision-testing program for children entering publicly funded pre-kindergarten or kindergarten program for the first time.
- 2007-H6095baa Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases: This legislation included prenatal HIVHIVHuman immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
screening as part of routine prenatal care. - 2007-H6166a The Lindsay Ann Burke Act: This legislation required school districts to implement dating violenceDating violenceDating abuse or dating violence is defined as the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating or courtship. It is also when one partner tries to maintain power and control over the other through...
procedures, and required school districts to incorporate an age-appropriate dating violence education program for grades 7 through 12 health education curricula. - 2008-H7962aaa Hospital Infection Disclosure Act: This legislation required hospitals to collect data on hospital-acquired infections and report them to the Department of Health.
- 2009-H5414aaa Prevention and Suppression of Contagious Diseases - HIV/AIDS: This legislation enabled health care policies and regulations to reduce vulnerability to HIV/AIDS transmission, protect persons who are infected with HIV from discrimination, ensure informed consent for testing, and to provide consistent terms and standards.
- 2009-H5798aaa Stroke Prevention Act of 2009: This legislation enabled state policies to increase emergency response times for strokeStrokeA stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
victims and provided for greater emphasis on treatment of stroke and other vascular diseaseVascular diseaseVascular disease is a form of cardiovascular disease primarily affecting the blood vessels.Some conditions, such as angina and myocardial ischemia, can be considered both vascular diseases and heart diseases .Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor....
s in Rhode Island.