Rhode Island State Representative

Michelle McGaw Authored & Sponsored Legislation

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5846

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/25/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Establish a moratorium on changes to the state energy conservation code from the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code until January 1, 2030, unless approved by the legislature and made effective by the governor.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5852

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
4/10/25  
Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the definition of “collaborative practice committee.”
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5854

Introduced
2/28/25  
Adds new sections that set forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by state board of pharmacy. The cessation therapies to be covered by all health insurance carriers on or after 1/1/26.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5858

Introduced
2/28/25  
Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5861

Introduced
2/28/25  
Requires health insurance policies to cover licensed certified lactation counselor services for childbearing families. It also prohibits requiring supervision or duplicate payments for services and mandates annual reporting.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5867

Introduced
2/28/25  
HOUSE RESOLUTION URGING THE RHODE ISLAND FEDERAL DELEGATION TO DEMAND REVERSAL OF ACTIONS HARMING CRITICAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5871

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Engrossed
4/8/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Provides that public historical vital records maintained by the state archives shall not be amended.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5882

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
5/8/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Reduces the course time required to become a school bus driver for applicants who have a valid commercial driver’s license.

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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5855

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
6/3/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Amends the types of products which pharmacists may prescribe as substitute drugs or products to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent drugs and pharmaceuticals."
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session

Rhode Island House Bill H5866

Introduced
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/22/25  
Refer
5/2/25  
Report Pass
6/10/25  
Engrossed
6/12/25  
Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a sixty-day (60) supply may be dispensed at any one time.