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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING (Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the recovery coach, in accordance with federal law.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING (Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the recovery coach, in accordance with federal law.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 139"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 139 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health & Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Goldin", "Goodwin", "McCaffrey", "Miller", "Satchell"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-24"
+last_action: "2019-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cd91fa9-dce2-4889-a2c4-9dd5778dfb43"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "0bff3cdc9a4255d63bd7adaef03e235c2ef1d45f661c2095aa62f346d9ec4135"
+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 139 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLANNING (Amends current law so that, as part of a comprehensive discharge plan, a hospital would be allowed to try to contact the patient's emergency contact and the recovery coach, in accordance with federal law.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **139 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0139A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–2** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Goldin — primary (person)
+- Goodwin — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Satchell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-24** 01/24/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** 01/25/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/31/2019)
+- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
+- **2019-01-31** 01/31/2019 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
+- **2019-02-05** 02/05/2019 Scheduled for consideration (02/07/2019)
+- **2019-02-07** 02/07/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-13** 02/13/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (02/26/2019)
+- **2019-02-26** 02/26/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2019-02-27** 02/27/2019 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Committee transferred to House Corporations
+- **2019-06-07** 06/07/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/11/2019)
+- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2019)
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 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/8cd91fa9-dce2-4889-a2c4-9dd5778dfb43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+