Representative Brandon Potter
Second Vice Chair, House Health and Human Services Committee
Member, House Corporations Committee
Member, House Labor 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 serves as Second Vice
Chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee is a member of
the House Corporations Committee and the House Labor Committee.
In the 2025 legislative session, Representative Potter sponsored a new law that created a three-year pilot program prohibiting insurers from requiring prior authorization for medically necessary health care services ordered by patients' primary care providers. The pilot aims to remove a roadblock that slows down patient care and consumes hours of primary care providers' and their staffs' time each day.
Representative Potter has also sponsored a new law 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 successfully sponsored legislation 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 law to reduce the time health insurance companies are allowed to claw back payments to behavioral and mental health care providers.
Representative Potter also cosponsored laws to increase paid time off to eight weeks, protect Rhode Islanders from annual and lifetime limits on health insurance benefits, require landlords to give tenants at least 90 days' notice before a rent increase, authorize a pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers, prohibit housing discrimination based on source of income, raise the minimum wage to $17 per hour by 2027, and increase the benefits provides by RI Works, the cash assistance and work-readiness program for low-income children and their families.
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 graduated from Roger Williams University School of Law in May 2025.