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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT (Requires health care facilities to report to the department of health the use of non-Rhode Island licensed nurses.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT (Requires health care facilities to report to the department of health the use of non-Rhode Island licensed nurses.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 863"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 863 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health & Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-05-04"
+last_action: "2017-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67382c3f-60a7-44c0-bdf2-c891e8e8be89"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "b92ceb2988960a7b48d2a007e14b8456ee48658ae4da4d23e0d27a49cc8d29f0"
+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 SB 863 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT (Requires health care facilities to report to the department of health the use of non-Rhode Island licensed nurses.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **863 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0863A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Goodwin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-05-04** 05/04/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-05-05** 05/05/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/11/2017)
+- **2017-05-11** 05/11/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2017)
+- **2017-05-25** 05/25/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/07/2017)
+- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Referred to House Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/21/2017)
+- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
+- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 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/67382c3f-60a7-44c0-bdf2-c891e8e8be89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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