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Rhode Island Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| H5083 | Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises. | Crossed Over | 03/21/2025 |
| H5171 | Extends the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers for two (2) years to March 1, 2028. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5218 | Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5248 | Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless an identified problem exists or fraud or misrepresentation is suspected. | Crossed Over | 05/23/2025 |
| H5273 | Requires all lifeguards, and park and forest rangers, who work on a full time basis at any public beach or facility to be trained in administering opioid antagonists. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5353 | 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. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5427 | Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5495 | 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. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5550 | Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5557 | Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island. | Crossed Over | 05/23/2025 |
| H5613 | Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5619 | Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5625 | Removes the sunset provision of all statutory law requiring coverage for the treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5633 | Allows a pharmacist to dispense a one-time refill for certain medications for continuation of therapy to patients under certain circumstances. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5635 | Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts. | Crossed Over | 05/23/2025 |
| H5714 | Provides that a person eighteen (18) years or older could request that his or her race be modified or amended on their birth certificate. | Crossed Over | 05/23/2025 |
| H5866 | 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. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H5871 | Provides that public historical vital records maintained by the state archives shall not be amended. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| H6038 | Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| S0050 | Establishes Children's Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund to provide finance assistance to families for medical expenses not covered by state or federal programs or insurance contract. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0051 | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath on or after January 1, 2026. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0052 | Prohibits certain claim practices of health insurers and medical providers. The act would further require fulfillment of medical record requests within fourteen (14) days. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0053 | Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0054 | Prohibits health insurance providers from requiring preauthorization for in- network mental health or substance use disorder services. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0055 | Includes the definition of "primary care services" and requires that all biennial reports shall include a review and recommendation of rates for primary care services on and after September 1, 2025. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0056 | SENATE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PROTECT PATIENTS AND TRADITIONAL MEDICARE FROM MEDICARE ADVANTAGE | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S0103 | Mandates all insurance contracts, plans or policies provide insurance coverage for the expense of diagnosing and treating infertility, for women between the ages of 25 and 42 years including preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with IVF. | Crossed Over | 01/31/2025 |
| S0114 | Prohibits any health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, or other third-party payor from discriminating against any 340B entity participating in a drug discount program. | Crossed Over | 01/31/2025 |
| S0115 | Requires health plans that provide prescription benefits to cover at least one type of glucagon auto-injector, nasal spray, or formulation that does not require reconstitution to treat hypoglycemia. No copayment or deductible would be required. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0116 | Limits the use by insurers of step therapy, a protocol that establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs for a specified medical condition are covered by an insurer, by allowing medical providers to request step therapy exceptions. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0117 | Sets controls on Medicaid prescription drug costs by imposing transparency and accountability requirements on managed care organizations (MCOs) and their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0118 | Creates the nursing home workforce standards board act to establish and enforce industry-wide quality of care standards in nursing homes. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0119 | Encourages and authorizes the department of health to adopt rules and regulations that lead to the more liberal utilization of buprenorphine. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0120 | Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0121 | Requires a report to be produced that focuses on prescription drug prior authorizations by January 1, 2026. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S0165 | Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from conducting or participate in spread pricing within the state. | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| S0166 | Amends the definition of the practice of pharmacy to include the administration of all forms of influenza immunizations including COVID-19 to individuals over the age of 3 years pursuant to a valid prescription or prescriber approved protocol. | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| S0167 | Provides that individuals enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B guaranteed right to enroll in standardized plans. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S0168 | Prohibits an insurer from imposing a requirement of prior authorization for any admission, item, service, treatment, test, exam, study, procedure or any generic or brand name prescription drug ordered by a primary care provider | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| S0170 | Grants the director of the department of health the authority to approve or deny any applications for professional licensure pending before certain boards of licensure that have been unable to establish a quorum for 30 business days. | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| S0173 | Requires the secretary of the executive office of health and human services to monitor and mandate changes to the price-setting practices of pharmacy benefit managers to prohibit the spread pricing payment model. | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| S0193 | Amends the provisions for insurance coverage of mental health, mental illness, and substance use disorders. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S0194 | 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. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S0195 | Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. A disposition facility would be used for either cremation or natural organic reduction. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S0196 | Caps amount payable for 30 day supply of equipment/supplies for insulin administration/glucose monitoring at $25 or equipment designed to last more than 30 days with no deductible commencing January 1, 2026. | Crossed Over | 02/07/2025 |
| S0197 | Prohibits an insurance company from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for any diagnostic or supplemental breast examinations. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S0198 | Permits physical therapists to continue to order diagnostic imaging as an authorized practice of physical therapy beyond December 31, 2025. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S0220 | Amends Rhode Island’s existing healthcare services funding plan act by adding an account relating to a new psychiatry resource network to fund Rhode Island’s present PediPRN and MomsPRN. | Crossed Over | 02/10/2025 |
| S0221 | Provides certain controls over prescription drug costs by imposing transparency, oversight and accountability requirements on commercial insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| S0222 | Requires pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse pharmacist no less than national drug acquisition costs plus fee. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| S0263 | Requires coverage for acute mental health crisis mobile response and stabilization services to eligible individuals enrolled as plan beneficiaries. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| S0264 | LIABILITY-FREE) PRODUCTS ACT (Prohibits mandating indemnified products to consumers in certain circumstances. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0265 | Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred during calendar years 2022, 2023, and 2024 would be abated. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0266 | Repeals the examination requirement in order to qualify for a clinical social workers license. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0267 | Seeks to promote increased consumer access to Medicare supplement health insurance policies. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0268 | Requires every individual or group health insurance contract effective on or after January 1, 2026, to provide coverage to the insured and the insured's spouse and dependents for all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and other products. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0269 | Repeals the required HIV testing for an individual convicted under chapter 34.1 of title 11 and allows the option for HIV testing for any person convicted under this chapter. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| S0270 | Prohibits gender transition procedures for all minors, uses of public funds, discipline for health care providers, a 30 year statute of limitation, after reaching age of majority, and right to a civil action for damages. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0271 | Prohibits health benefit plans reviewing prescriptions for opioid addiction treatment. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| S0272 | Mandates that all restaurants offering children's meals offer at least two (2) children's meals that complies with certain detailed nutritional standards set forth in the act. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S0314 | Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the authority to impose sanctions for violations. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| S0343 | Requires all lifeguards, and park rangers, to be trained in administering opioid antagonists, and would require all public beaches to keep available a minimum of four doses of opioid antagonist. | Crossed Over | 02/21/2025 |
| S0344 | Requires EOHHS to develop a budget and seek funding to establish an early childhood mental health hub program to improve access to infant and early childhood mental health services for children under six (6) years and their families. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S0345 | Allows for the enactment of the dietitian licensure compact permitting a licensed dietitian from another state to become licensed within the state, and also permitting a dietitian licensed by the state to become licensed in another compact state. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S0346 | Establishes a single-payer health care insurance system, consolidating public and private payments into a more efficient Medicare-for-all style program, funded by progressive taxes, to reduce health care costs. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S0347 | Allows internationally trained physicians to practice at healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities and provides a mentorship alternative to the residency requirement. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S0348 | SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE RHODE ISLAND FEDERAL DELEGATION TO DEMAND REVERSAL OF ACTIONS HARMING CRITICAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S0460 | Expands the DCYF powers by overseeing and administer comprehensive behavioral health services for children with serious emotional disturbances and children with developmental or functional disabilities. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0461 | Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription inhaler, prescription device, or prescription equipment to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0462 | Removes the sunset provision of the four (4) year pilot program to prevent drug overdoses through the establishment of harm reduction centers and creates a permanent program for harm reduction centers. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| S0463 | Requires each healthcare entity/network plan to compile/report to health insurance commissioner a summary of how the healthcare entity/network plan requires its contracted providers to submit claims for in-network outpatient behavioral health services. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0464 | Requires every college in RI to train staff members in the student residential department, including RAs, to administer of opioid antagonists with protection from liability and prosecution. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0465 | Prohibits a person from being denied life insurance for preexisting conditions or previous denials. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0466 | Allows executive office of EOHHS to review current methodology for Medical payments to nursing facilities. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0467 | Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada, to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0468 | Prohibits the state, participating ERISA, or any health plan from purchasing referenced drugs for a cost higher than the referenced rate. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0469 | Requires written consent by recipient or parent before vaccine and prohibits discrimination against those who don't vaccinate and fines up to $25,000 for violation. Also prohibits DCYF from investigating their for failure to vaccinate their child. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0470 | Amends the current law in order that a health insurer would not require a physician, to participate in "capitation," or any other "alternative payment model" that creates a financial incentive for a physician to limit medically necessary care. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0471 | Establishes prevailing standards and procedures for licensing speech-language pathologists and audiologists in Rhode Island. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0472 | Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2025. Also restores access to telemedicine for all Rhode Island residents and allows treatment by out-of-state providers who register with DOH. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0473 | Extends coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome by removing the sunset date of December 31, 2025, and mandating such coverage. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| S0474 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0475 | Requires public or private golf courses to have an automated external defibrillator on the premises. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| S0476 | Amends current law so that initial contraceptive prescriptions would no longer be limited to a 3-month supply. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0477 | 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. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| S0478 | Establishes the scope of a certified professional midwife’s authority relating to prescribing medication to patients. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0479 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0480 | Mandates health insurance coverage for FDA approved contraceptive drug, device or therapeutic equivalent. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0481 | Requires the department of health to incorporate information about dementia risk factors and reduction into public education and healthcare provider education materials. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0482 | Amends the types of less expensive generic products which pharmacists may prescribe to include "devices and supplies" and "therapeutically equivalent products" and requires the director to provide a list of therapeutically equivalent products. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0483 | Authorizes pharmacists to dispense a one-time refill, for up to one hundred days under certain specified conditions. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0484 | Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils and resident councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0485 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0486 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0487 | Prohibits any personnel, in any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0488 | 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. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S0606 | Provides that public historical vital records maintained by the state archives shall not be amended. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S0607 | Makes a series of amendments to several statutes regarding businesses and professions to provide clarity or align with new federal requirements. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S0608 | Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S0609 | Permits reimbursement for dental hygienist's from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S0610 | Adds several consumer protections to existing Medicare Supplement law. | Crossed Over | 03/06/2025 |
| S0680 | Requires that an individual's caregiver be present when healthcare decisions are discussed with the hospice team. It would also prevent a denial of home hospice care because of age or income. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0681 | Amends powers/duties of the office of the health insurance commissioner to increase total cost of care for services reimbursed under contracts after risk adjustment that exceeds the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers percentage increase. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0682 | Requires hospitals to have a notary on staff all hours of the day and week. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0683 | Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements to allow non-physician healthcare providers to enter into such agreements. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0684 | Prohibits a policy of individual health insurance coverage from requiring prior authorization for prescriptions of generic medication. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0685 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0686 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0687 | Makes several changes to the licensing and disciplinary process of the board of nursing. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0688 | 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. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| S0689 | Create the “Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2025.” Also requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0690 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0691 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0692 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0693 | Expands eligibility for the qualified Medicare beneficiary program by increasing the income limit from 100% to 138% of the federal poverty line. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0694 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0695 | Mandates establishment of a support program for nurse practitioners similar to that which is offered for physicians. Additionally, it requires professional licensing and reporting reforms to protect clinicians who seek support. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0696 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0697 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0698 | 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. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0699 | Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0700 | Amends provisions relative to confidentiality of health care communications and the process for requesting records and/or confidential health care information. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| S0701 | Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians who are and are not licensed in Rhode Island to provide telemedicine services to patients who are in the state when those services are rendered. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0702 | Requires every individual or group health insurance plan on or after January 1, 2026, that provides benefits to reimburse child service providers for therapy services offered through EOHHS certified Kids Connect/Therapeutic Services. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0703 | Alters a PA’s continuing education requirements, ability to provide charitable care, and authority to clear students to return to sports after health-concern related removal and protect PA’s from certain restrictive covenants. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0704 | Mandates transparency in nursing home finances and would establish procedures for compliance. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0705 | Requires insurance coverage for all community health workers' services to include health and promotion coaching, health education and training, health system navigation and resource coordination services, care planning and follow-up care recommendations. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| S0706 | Requires EOHHS to provide self-measured blood pressure monitoring for eligible pregnant and postpartum individuals, covering home monitors, training, data transmission, and co-interventions, with state funds if federal aid is unavailable. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0707 | Creates the Rhode Island Individual Market Affordability Act of 2024 to help reduce out-of-pocket costs for low- and moderate-income consumers enrolled in the health insurance coverage through the Rhode Island health benefits exchange. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S0786 | Prohibits prior authorization or a step therapy protocol for the prescription of a nonpreferred medication on their drug formulary used to assess or treat an enrollee's bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or schizotypal. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0787 | Supports the role of independent family council and makes the waiting list transparent by requiring nursing facilities with more than thirty percent (30%) self-pay residents to admit applicants on a first-come-first-served basis for non-private rooms. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0788 | Removes the age restriction for benefits coverage/requires, after 1/1/26, for policies issued or renewed include coverage for reimbursement for provider services at a rate equal to, or greater than, Medicaid establishments of EOHHS. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0789 | Requires the disclosure of the transfer of certain assets of healthcare facilities and provides penalties for failing to file healthcare facility ownership information. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0790 | Changes the name of "applied behavior assistant analyst" to "assistant applied behavior analyst" and makes several changes to provide consistency in the certification language for behavioral analysts. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0791 | Prohibits insurance companies from paying a rate that is less than the approved Medicaid rate set by the executive office of health and human services. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0792 | Authorizes and regulates the distribution of the product known as "kratom." | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0793 | Increases individual, group, and Medicaid insurance rates of reimbursement for ambulance and wheelchair van services to be equal to reimbursement rates provided by Medicare for the same medical services. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0794 | Authorizes emergency medical service agencies to transport individuals to alternative facilities for treatment and permits licensed providers for mental health disorders to treat patients within the community. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0795 | Increases the maximum fill for non-opioid, non-narcotic controlled substances found in schedule II, so that a ninety-day (90) supply may be dispensed at any one time. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0796 | Provides a duty upon midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to obtain a blood specimen of pregnant women within thirty (30) days after the first professional visit. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S0846 | Prohibits healthcare providers and health plans from denying the payment of a medical bill, solely because the bill may have arisen from a third-party claim. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| S0847 | Requires certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| S0848 | Imposes a hospital licensing fee for fiscal year 2026 against net patient-services revenue of every non-government owned hospital for the hospital’s first fiscal year ending on or after January 1, 2024. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| S0874 | Provides that licensed independent clinical social workers be able to enroll and bill Medicaid directly for covered services provided to adults with Medicaid fee-for-service coverage. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| S0897 | Requires health insurance providers to provide insurance coverage for pharmacists’ services. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S0898 | HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE WORKER PLATFORM | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S0905 | Prohibits dental insurers from refusing to honor directions to pay from insured, modifying benefits to be paid. Requires providers to accept payment by virtual credit card as unfair claims practices. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S0941 | Allows continuing care providers to provide care in an individual’s home, subject to the same disclosures and requirements as continuing care provided in a facility. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| S0975 | Provides medical assistance coverage for medical services provided qualifying eligible recipients for community based care. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S0976 | Mandates cosmetic medical procedures be performed by a physician, PA, APRN, or delegated to a qualified non-physician, non-PA or non-APRN under the supervision of a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S0977 | Provides recommended air quality standards for schools. Further requires the department of education incorporate indoor air quality testing as part of the school building authority needs assessment. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S1004 | Requires the executive office of health and human services to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a state plan amendment for reimbursement for health services in a school. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S1005 | Allows a clinical laboratory, that is incorporated in the State of Rhode Island, to analyze blood samples, from children under the age of six (6) years, for blood lead levels. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S1006 | Allows the director of the department of health to authorize the state registrar of vital records to change a person's race designation on their birth certificate, if justified. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |