Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 142)
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0684
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE -- PRIOR AUTHORIZATIONS - Prohibits a policy of individual health insurance coverage from requiring prior authorization for prescriptions of generic medication.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0685
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - 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 Senate Bill S0686
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/10/25
Enrolled
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS - Authorizes a midwife, nurse practitioner or physicians assistant attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0687
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0688
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Engrossed
5/13/25
Refer
5/14/25
Report Pass
5/27/25
Enrolled
6/10/25
Passed
6/13/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION - Makes a technical amendment to correctly reference a section of general law that allows for a tax refund deduction for contributions to the Rhode Island organ transplant fund.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0689
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- EMBRYO SAFETY AND STORAGE ACT - Create the “Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2025.” Also requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0690
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - 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 Senate Bill S0691
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Requires individual and group health insurance policies that provide pregnancy-related benefits to cover medically necessary expenses for diagnosis and treatment of infertility and standard fertility-preservation services.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0692
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/18/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Engrossed
6/20/25
Passed
6/30/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0693
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS - Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0694
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/10/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Refer
6/14/25
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Details each of those limited emergency circumstances where a registered nurse and advanced practice registered nurses, may safely administer sedation, such as critical life-saving or emergency situations where there is an imminent threat to life or limb.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0695
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/3/25
Engrossed
6/12/25
Engrossed
6/18/25
Passed
6/24/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- THE RHODE ISLAND CLINICIAN WELLNESS AND SUPPORT ACT - Recognizes the program run by the Rhode Island Medical Society or comparable program for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and podiatrists, to address burnout, substance abuse, and mental and physical health issues.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0696
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
6/2/25
Engrossed
6/4/25
HUMAN SERVICES -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- LONG-TERM CARE SERVICE AND FINANCE REFORM - Authorizes an increase in resource eligibility limits for persons with long-term-care needs who reside at home and requires semi-annual reports from Medicaid certified assisted living facilities and adult day service providers to the EOHHS.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0697
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Mandates that EOHHS assemble a network of equity zones where local multisector groups of nonprofits, service providers, advocates, community members, state agencies, and municipalities can address social factors of health at a local level.
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Rhode Island 2025 Regular Session
Rhode Island Senate Bill S0698
Introduced
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- PRIMARY CARE TRAINING SITES PROGRAM - Allows the office of health insurance commissioner (OHIC) as the state agency that has the authority to designate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) care to obtain maximal health outcomes.