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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS"
+description: "Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2078"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2078 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "Lombardi", "Lombardo", "Paolino", "Picard", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "de la Cruz"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-12"
+last_action: "2024-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82695a46-10b4-489a-9751-2a9dc87379ad"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "e27b0bc634a53ed2ac7ced68b07e90b678042ded3df520f50724df1d62024f33"
+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 2078 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS
+
+Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2078** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2078.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Lombardo — primary (person)
+- Paolino — primary (person)
+- Picard — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- de la Cruz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-12** 01/12/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2024)
+- **2024-03-19** 03/19/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2024)
+- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-05** 06/05/2024 Referred to House Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-09** 06/09/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2024)
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-28** 06/28/2024 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82695a46-10b4-489a-9751-2a9dc87379ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+