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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES"
+description: "Prohibits healthcare entities from interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain a clinician-administered drug from their provider or pharmacy of choice."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2086"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2086 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "Bissaillon", "DiMario", "Gallo", "Gu", "Mack", "McKenney", "Miller", "Ujifusa", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-01-12"
+last_action: "2024-06-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47e8e732-1d45-443e-a483-221f96114d0e"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "019e264b1b6885469ddba5d1f684fb9b0ceee51329c43a78d20b82f76aebdb7f"
+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 2086 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
+
+Prohibits healthcare entities from interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain a clinician-administered drug from their provider or pharmacy of choice.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2086 as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2086aa.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **69–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- AS AMENDED — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Gallo — primary (person)
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Valverde — 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`
+- **2024-02-02** 02/02/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/08/2024)
+- **2024-02-08** 02/08/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-15** 02/15/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/07/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-07** 03/07/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Referred to House Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 House passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed as amended 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/47e8e732-1d45-443e-a483-221f96114d0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+