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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT"
+description: "Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2262"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2262 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Lombardi", "Mack", "McKenney", "Miller", "Murray", "Pearson", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-08"
+last_action: "2024-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d0a5ef7-b36e-48a5-85ce-8fedbe330d56"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "df7aa5b3d377d66caac7120c142f28ef7e34a06a786a0696688e10fb18047172"
+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 2262 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT
+
+Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2262 SUB B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2262B.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **50–14** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **31–6** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **30–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lombardi — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-08** 02/08/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
+- **2024-03-02** 03/02/2024 Meeting postponed (03/05/2024)
+- **2024-03-02** 03/02/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2024)
+- **2024-03-07** 03/07/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-04-23** 04/23/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2024)
+- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
+- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub B `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House passed Sub B `passage`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub B in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/0d0a5ef7-b36e-48a5-85ce-8fedbe330d56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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