Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 128)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0474
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
Passed
6/27/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL - Establishes a rare disease advisory council within the department of health to provide guidance and recommendations to educate healthcare providers and the citizens of the state.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0475
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
5/20/25
Engrossed
5/29/25
Passed
6/6/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES -- DAVID CASEY ACT - Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0476
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
6/30/25
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0477
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Engrossed
5/6/25
Refer
5/7/25
INSURANCE -- PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS - 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, 2026.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0478
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - 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 Senate Bill S0479
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires health insurance plans to cover services provided by licensed certified professional midwives. Insurers must report utilization and cost data annually. Certain limited benefit policies are exempt.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0480
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Mandates health insurance coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drug, device or therapeutic equivalent.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0481
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Enrolled
6/20/25
Passed
7/1/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- RHODE ISLAND PROGRAM TO ADDRESS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0482
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/5/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
FOOD AND DRUGS -- RHODE ISLAND FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS ACT - 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 Senate Bill S0483
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Engrossed
6/3/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0484
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE LICENSING ACT - Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0485
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- REGULATE HEALTH INSURANCE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REHABILITATIVE AND HABILITATIVE SERVICES ACT - Limits prior authorization requirements for rehabilitative and habilitative services. Also prohibits prior authorization for the first twelve (12) visits of a new episode of care and for ninety (90) days following a chronic pain diagnosis.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0486
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE RHODE ISLAND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF 2004 -- HEALTH INSURANCE OVERSIGHT - Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increases where there is no, or inadequate, new evidence to support the price increase.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0487
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
7/1/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES - Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0488
Introduced
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- RHODE ISLAND MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION ACT - Establishes that Medicaid eligibility in RI can only be determined using state-controlled data, prohibit private entity data in eligibility decisions, and ensure terminations are made by human employees rather than automated systems.