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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 32"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 32 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Abortion", "Health & Safety", "Health Insurance", "State Affairs", "State Employees"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lawson", "Mack", "Miller", "Murray", "Pearson", "Sosnowski", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-18"
+last_action: "2023-05-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5176d364-8061-4a89-be78-9cae831b709a"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "8a0152c0499becdd68bf9e4b44372cedc883401e67a34b37a096aad449516ef3"
+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 32 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0032.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **16–49** (fail) · upper
+- Passage — **24–13** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **14–49** (fail) · upper
+- EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE — **30–4** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **46–20** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-18** 01/18/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2023)
+- **2023-05-09** 05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/16/2023)
+- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/18/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/18/2023) `reading-3`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 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/5176d364-8061-4a89-be78-9cae831b709a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+