| RI | H7020 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care shou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7840 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS - Requires any person in the business of selling, assigning or buying an equitable interest in real estate without taking legal title to such property, to be licensed as a real estate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H8128 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY - Updates the state’s public accountancy act for consistency with the 9th edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act, as issued by NASBA and AICPA in July 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3076 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY - Updates the state’s public accountancy act for consistency with the 9th edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act, as issued by NASBA and AICPA in July 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3136 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS - Requires any person in the business of selling, assigning or buying an equitable interest in real estate without taking legal title to such property, to be licensed as a real estate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3180 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care shou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-23
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7002 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7424 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2866 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE - Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3028 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE AND DISCIPLINE - 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-22
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7173 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FACILITATING BUSINESS RAPID RESPONSE TO STATE DECLARED DISASTER ACT OF 2024 - Incorporates broadband, internet, and wireless means into the crime of injuring electric and communication lines and authorizes municipalities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2424 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Provides protocols for radon inspection relative to real estate transactions and provides time frames and conditions for testing and mitigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7513 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- REAL ESTATE SALES DISCLOSURES - Provides protocols for radon inspection relative to real estate transactions and provides time frames and conditions for testing and mitigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7740 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Provides and clarifies procedures for the administration of deep sedation and general anesthesia by certain types of nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2601 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FACILITATING BUSINESS RAPID RESPONSE TO STATE DECLARED DISASTER ACT OF 2024 - Incorporates cable, broadband, Internet, and wireless means into the crime of injuring electric and communication lines and authorizes municip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S3184 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Provides and clarify procedures for the administration of deep sedation and general anesthesia by certain types of nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-18
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7427 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRIMARY CARE PRESERVATION ACT - Prohibits health insurance companies or other payors from including in physician participation agreements any provisions that restrict or prevent a physician from charging patients rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-11
House read and passed |
| RI | H7836 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS, AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows electronic notifications modernize language for notifications, synchronize renewal dates for certain license-types, streamline licensing require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7837 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Permits reimbursement for dental hygienists from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7922 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY - Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2878 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Permits reimbursement for dental hygienists from "other insurance" or a third-party payor such as Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2861 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS, COSMETICIANS, MANICURISTS, AND ESTHETICIANS - Allows electronic notifications modernize language for notifications, synchronize renewal dates for certain license-types, streamline licensing require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2857 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY - Repeals the older of the two existing chapters related to speech-language pathologists and audiologists and makes several amendments to reconcile the two statutes into one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2867 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CONFIDENTIALITY OF HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ACT - Provides conditions under which BHDDH has the authority to compel certain healthcare providers to finish requested healthcare records without violating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-10
Senate passed Sub A |
| RI | H7070 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation and duties of natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. Disposition facilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | H7920 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Reduces funeral home inspections from twice a year to once a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2033 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PROTECTIONS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ACT - Provides that the prescription label for medication abortion prescription drugs may include the name of the dispensing healthcare practice instead of the name of the dispenser.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2862 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Allows foreign-trained dentists and dental hygienists to obtain limited licenses if they graduate from reputable dental colleges or universities, work under a supervising dentist, and pas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S3090 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PATIENT PAYMENT INFORMATION - Prohibits a healthcare provider from requiring patients to provide electronic payment information to be kept on file as a condition to receiving treatment and makes it a violation a deceptiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-06-05
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2931 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Transfers authority over the examination and licensing of telecommunications professionals to the state board of examiners of electricians and amends the composition of that body to require the inclusion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-29
To House Labor Committee |
| RI | S3258 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Strengthens enforcement of the state's pharmacy audit law by clarifying and tightening audit procedures to ensure pharmacy audits are conducted fairly and transparently.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2594 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR/EMBALMER AND FUNERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS - Provides for the operation of and duties imposed on a disposition facility relating to the natural organic reduction for the contained, accelerated conversio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| RI | S2738 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PLUMBERS, IRRIGATORS, AND WATER SYSTEM INSTALLERS - Grants hourly credit of 288 hours against 576 hours if graduate of accredited trade school/raises to 4 years of work under master plumber and requires 8,000 hours of on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-06
To Senate Labor and Gaming Committee |
| RI | S2772 | Engross
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ARCHITECTS - Amends how architecture firms and individual architects are registered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-06
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | S2879 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- THE PRIMARY CARE PRESERVATION ACT - Prohibits health insurance companies or other payors from including in physician participation agreements any provisions that restrict or prevent a physician from charging patients rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-05
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2888 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Sets conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by the state board of pharmacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-30
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2856 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Includes routine, scheduled or recommended immunizations to individuals between the ages of three (3) and eighteen (18) years, under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-30
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S2851 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACISTS TEST-AND-TREAT AUTHORITY ACT - Authorizes pharmacists to order, perform and interpret CLIA-waived tests authorized by statewide protocol and prescribe medications, and permits coverage by all health insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-30
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7029 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Permits a nurse who has the appropriate knowledge, credentials and clinical competency, to provide home services foot care, which includes routine foot and nail care, as well as implementing a plan of care that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | S2116 | Pass | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - Permits a nurse who has the appropriate knowledge, credentials and clinical competency, to provide home services foot care, which includes routine foot and nail care, as well as implementing a plan of care that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-29
Signed by Governor |
| RI | H7839 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY - Updates the state’s public accountancy act for consistency with the 9th edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act, as issued by NASBA and AICPA in July 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7076 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- CERTIFIED SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANTS ACT - Allows for the licensing of certified surgical first assistants to assist in surgeries through the department of health and a 7 member board of licensure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7273 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT - Requires the state to implement the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact no later than July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7741 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- NURSES - 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7838 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS - Allows foreign-trained dentists and dental hygienists to obtain limited licenses if they graduate from reputable dental colleges or universities, work under a supervising dentist, and pas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Corporations Committee |
| RI | H7935 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Increases continuing education requirements for physician assistants, removes restrictions of PAs to render charitable care and aid for school and youth programs or cardiac arrest and removes restr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7921 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACISTS TEST-AND-TREAT AUTHORITY ACT - Authorizes pharmacists to order, perform and interpret CLIA-waived tests authorized by statewide protocol and prescribe medications, and permits coverage by all health insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H8382 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES - Strengthens enforcement of the state's pharmacy audit law by clarifying and tightening audit procedures to ensure pharmacy audits are conducted fairly and transparently.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| RI | H7274 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS - Permits physician assistants to practice without a physician's direct supervision and receives direct payments from Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (04/14/2026) |
| RI | H7603 | Intro
Sine Die | BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE - Requires veterinarians to provide consultations to animal owners when a drug is prescribed and dispensed for that annual patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-09
Withdrawn at sponsor's request |
