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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Allows physician practices to maintain their license standards, even if a hospital system owns the practice.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Allows physician practices to maintain their license standards, even if a hospital system owns the practice.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 5840"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5840 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Hospitals", "Health & Safety", "Licenses", "Physicians"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fogarty", "McEntee", "Tanzi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-03-02"
+last_action: "2017-07-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37556f95-40a1-4bc2-a48c-98f741735d9f"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "7361d1cae6af4c6abc3c53f376c1fee3bda74ae10a918bdd041db42a43c0bc3f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
+---
+
+# Rhode Island HB 5840 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Allows physician practices to maintain their license standards, even if a hospital system owns the practice.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5840 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5840A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- Tanzi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-02** 03/02/2017 Introduced, referred to House Finance `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2017)
+- **2017-05-24** 05/24/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
+- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/26/2017)
+- **2017-06-26** 06/26/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/29/2017)
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-07-13** 07/13/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-18** 07/18/2017 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37556f95-40a1-4bc2-a48c-98f741735d9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+