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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 574"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 574 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Death", "Dept. of Health", "Health & Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Goldin", "Lawson", "Satchell", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-14"
+last_action: "2019-07-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/889b185a-1b3d-4c5e-b279-590dc05f8311"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "0cba70819187d1740efa101c14c700d4377cb3c3731b929b6d4e1185c53ce4aa"
+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 574 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **574 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0574A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crowley — primary (person)
+- Goldin — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Satchell — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-14** 03/14/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-15** 03/15/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2019)
+- **2019-03-21** 03/21/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2019)
+- **2019-06-03** 06/03/2019 Proposed Substitute
+- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
+- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
+- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
+- **2019-06-17** 06/17/2019 Proposed Substitute
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019)
+- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/24/2019)
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on House Calendar
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2019)
+- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-08** 07/08/2019 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/889b185a-1b3d-4c5e-b279-590dc05f8311`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+