RI S0643 | 2017 | Regular Session

Rhode Island Senate Bill 643 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: Introduced on March 29 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-06-08 - Senate passed Sub A
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Summary

Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.

Title

Licensing Of Health Care Facilities

Roll Calls

2017-06-08 - Senate - Passage (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-06-08	Senate	Senate passed Sub A
2017-06-06	Senate	Placed on Senate Calendar (06/08/2017)
2017-06-01	Senate	Committee recommends passage of Sub A
2017-05-26	Senate	Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2017)
2017-04-11	Senate	Committee recommended measure be held for further study
2017-04-07	Senate	Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/11/2017)
2017-03-29	Senate	Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services

Subjects

Health And Safety

Rhode Island State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://status.rilegislature.gov/
Text	https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText17/SenateText17/S0643.pdf
Text	https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText17/SenateText17/S0643A.pdf
Roll Call	https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/SVotes/votereport.asp?id=10872