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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Extends monitoring of hospital conversions from 3 to 5 years/increases fine for violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000/simplifies judicial review.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Extends monitoring of hospital conversions from 3 to 5 years/increases fine for violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000/simplifies judicial review.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 5695"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5695 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Attorney General", "Health & Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Johnston"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-07-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c300666-880e-4583-bf31-2a4b99a534ae"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "040048c48e6b1b952d49488cbd9bd33ad677eef839504406f32a95c5059d6e9c"
+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 5695 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Extends monitoring of hospital conversions from 3 to 5 years/increases fine for violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000/simplifies judicial review.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5695 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H5695A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **67–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Johnston — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** 02/27/2019 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-22** 03/22/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/26/2019)
+- **2019-03-26** 03/26/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/26/2019)
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Proposed Substitute
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2019)
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-16** 07/16/2019 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/6c300666-880e-4583-bf31-2a4b99a534ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+