Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ri/2023/hb-5428.md

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Mandates a patient shall not be denied appropriate care on the basis of age/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation, race/color/marital status/familial status/disability/religion/national origin/source of income/source of payment or profession.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Mandates a patient shall not be denied appropriate care on the basis of age/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation, race/color/marital status/familial status/disability/religion/national origin/source of income/source of payment or profession.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 5428"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5428 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Equal Rights/Discrimination", "Health & Safety", "Health Care Plans/Services", "Human Services", "Medical"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Batista", "Bennett", "Boylan", "Cruz", "Felix", "Handy", "Knight", "McGaw", "Tanzi"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-08"
+last_action: "2023-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fad8b81-dece-414f-89f8-513a644f7569"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "4b0922a69b44d5b7c49f87eb95d8045f1b4357eb52e10a1627c8e440c884555a"
+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 5428 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Mandates a patient shall not be denied appropriate care on the basis of age/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation, race/color/marital status/familial status/disability/religion/national origin/source of income/source of payment or profession.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5428 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/HouseText23/H5428aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+- AS AMENDED — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ajello — primary (person)
+- Batista — primary (person)
+- Bennett — primary (person)
+- Boylan — primary (person)
+- Cruz — primary (person)
+- Felix — primary (person)
+- Handy — primary (person)
+- Knight — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- Tanzi — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-08** 02/08/2023 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-24** 02/24/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/28/2023)
+- **2023-02-28** 02/28/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-06-02** 06/02/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2023)
+- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-06** 06/06/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/08/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2023-06-08** 06/08/2023 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-13** 06/13/2023 Senate passed as amended in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-06-14** 06/14/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-06-19** 06/19/2023 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/1fad8b81-dece-414f-89f8-513a644f7569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+