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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- MOTOR PASSENGER CARRIERS -- NON-EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION"
+description: "Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a population of vulnerable passengers through coordination with the state's health and human service agencies."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 8217"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 8217 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Serpa"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-05-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/050b72dd-ccbe-49ae-a1f9-8e53fadf3cdb"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "9821cdbe8b2f0e6e161114276176fa085473c889b695d96fafef99d6bdd53747"
+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 8217 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS -- MOTOR PASSENGER CARRIERS -- NON-EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION
+
+Establishes a safe and reasonable regulatory framework for companies and drivers providing non-emergency medical transportation services to a population of vulnerable passengers through coordination with the state's health and human service agencies.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **8217 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H8217A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **62–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Serpa — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-01** 05/01/2024 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/07/2024)
+- **2024-05-07** 05/07/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-05-24** 05/24/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2024)
+- **2024-05-29** 05/29/2024 Committee continued
+- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024)
+- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/10/2024)
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-24** 06/24/2024 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/050b72dd-ccbe-49ae-a1f9-8e53fadf3cdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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