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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES"
+description: "Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5353"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5353 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Casimiro", "Donovan", "Morales", "Noret", "Shanley", "Solomon", "Speakman", "Spears"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e7ee969-c43a-4bcd-b026-25b4aa3fb9f5"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "c0aebdf201c908ff897cfcca67519f4f649feb770d81bd5152c7d1ea5207e673"
+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 5353 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
+
+Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5353 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5353A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **64–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Casimiro — primary (person)
+- Donovan — primary (person)
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- Noret — primary (person)
+- Shanley — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Speakman — primary (person)
+- Spears — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-07** 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/25/2025)
+- **2025-02-25** 02/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/18/2025)
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-24** 03/24/2025 Scheduled for reconsideration (03/27/2025)
+- **2025-03-24** 03/24/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Placed on House Calendar (04/08/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** 04/08/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 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/9e7ee969-c43a-4bcd-b026-25b4aa3fb9f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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