Rhode Island State Senator

Ryan Pearson 2024 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 7)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2674

Introduced
3/1/24  
Allows college athletes and prospects to enter into contracts receive compensation for use of their name, image and likeness rights and would prohibit colleges and athletic associations from interfering with such compensation rights.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2691

Introduced
3/1/24  
Authorizes and funds the painting of a portrait of the president of the senate and former presidents of the senate who may be living to be hung in the state house.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2701

Introduced
3/1/24  
Refer
3/1/24  
Report Pass
4/30/24  
Engrossed
5/9/24  
Amends the "work on holidays and Sundays" statute to include Washington's Birthday in the definition of holidays for the purpose of this statute.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2709

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/4/24  
Engrossed
6/6/24  
Refer
6/7/24  
Report Pass
6/10/24  
Engrossed
6/11/24  
Prohibits hospitals and other medical providers from reporting medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. A violation of this chapter may be pursued on behalf of the consumer by the attorney general.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2711

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/4/24  
Engrossed
6/6/24  
Prohibits credit reporting, executions, attachments against a principal residence for judgments based on medical debt. Defines medical debt as an amount for the receipt of health care services, products, or devices.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2712

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/6/24  
Establishes a medical debt relief program, to be administered by the general treasurer for the purchase, cancellation and forgiveness of medical debts, based upon certain conditions.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2713

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/6/24  
Provides that services provided by graduate student interns who work under a supervisory protocol would be eligible to be paid from Medicaid reimbursement.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2714

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
5/30/24  
Engrossed
6/4/24  
Refer
6/5/24  
Engrossed
6/13/24  
Engrossed
6/13/24  
Requires all hospitals to screen uninsured patients for eligibility for public health programs and financial assistance under Medicare and Medicaid.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2715

Introduced
3/5/24  
Mandates health insurance coverage to include transportation for emergency services by ambulance or rescue.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2716

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/6/24  
Establishes the primary care training sites program to provide training for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants within the DOH.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2717

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
6/6/24  
Adds a definition for "primary care" to the general law regarding the Stay Invested in RI Wavemaker Fellowships.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2718

Introduced
3/5/24  
Amends the licensing statute to allow a graduate of a board approved physical therapy school to be reinstated upon a failed examination upon the filing and registering for a second or third examination.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2719

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
5/14/24  
Engrossed
5/21/24  
Creates the Rhode Island drug cost review commission.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2720

Introduced
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
3/19/24  
Engrossed
3/28/24  
Includes any costs paid by an enrollee or on behalf of the enrollee by a third party when calculating an enrollee's overall contribution to any out-of-pocket maximum or cost sharing requirement under a health plan as of January 1, 2025.
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Rhode Island 2024 Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill S2721

Introduced
3/5/24  
Requires each off-campus location of a hospital and each subpart of an organization health care provider to have a unique identification number so that the costs associated with those facilities are transparent and accountable.