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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES"
+description: "Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5427"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 5427 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Batista", "Boylan", "Carson", "Casimiro", "Cotter", "Donovan", "Fogarty", "Kislak", "McGaw", "Potter"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cc8081e-22d4-451d-ad86-e8e63ed179b8"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "b6d552fbbeeffb5f150da0a8d843cc4bed844dd8c3c5e2b9c4286d60485993f4"
+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 5427 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
+
+Includes the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy administered immunizations to individuals between nine (9) and eighteen (18) years of age.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **5427 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5427A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **54–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Batista — primary (person)
+- Boylan — primary (person)
+- Carson — primary (person)
+- Casimiro — primary (person)
+- Cotter — primary (person)
+- Donovan — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Kislak — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- Potter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** 02/12/2025 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`
+- **2025-03-07** 03/07/2025 Scheduled for consideration
+- **2025-03-12** 03/12/2025 Meeting postponed (03/13/2025)
+- **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`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (03/25/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-19** 06/19/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-02** 07/02/2025 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/6cc8081e-22d4-451d-ad86-e8e63ed179b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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