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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES"
+description: "Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 120"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 120 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Burke", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "Paolino", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "Sosnowski", "Urso"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-31"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/188f5112-289d-4f7a-aa58-9be5d0815952"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "88040f940a843fe51b4bf4f5bcd8f83a6156f0b3bb80806e9333ccd6618ff3a7"
+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 120 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES
+
+Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0120.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Paolino — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Rogers — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2025)
+- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/188f5112-289d-4f7a-aa58-9be5d0815952`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+