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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY"
+description: "Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 172"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 172 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Burke", "Felag", "LaMountain", "Lawson", "McKenney", "Murray", "Raptakis", "Ruggerio", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-05"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89276afa-6590-4fca-b23d-9d3719aadadf"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "5c57cf9f9f815f8aa75776f19a3196471f7168cdf67802d6cdedb1cb445b9cd6"
+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 172 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW -- GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- INTEREST AND USURY
+
+Provides an interest rate cap on medical debt.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **172 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0172A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **64–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Felag — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Raptakis — primary (person)
+- Ruggerio — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-05** 02/05/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Commerce `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2025)
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Scheduled for consideration
+- **2025-04-21** 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/22/2025)
+- **2025-04-29** 04/29/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/01/2025)
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-01** 05/01/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/08/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-09** 05/09/2025 Referred to House Corporations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2025)
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/89276afa-6590-4fca-b23d-9d3719aadadf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+