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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES"
+description: "Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the authority to impose sanctions for violations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 314"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 314 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "DiMario", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Lawson", "Mack", "Murray", "Quezada", "Tikoian", "Ujifusa"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f18c435-094b-4cf6-a16e-ab976ed0f166"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "59a8794aa98446381fcdb172ec8595d81ec58bf516ff8ed4d47165170433c4cb"
+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 314 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES
+
+Restricts audits of pharmacists conducted by insurers and their intermediaries, limiting audits to one per year unless fraud or misrepresentation is reasonably suspected. The RI attorney general has the authority to impose sanctions for violations.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **314 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0314A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **52–7** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- DiPalma — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** 02/14/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/20/2025)
+- **2025-03-20** 03/20/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
+- **2025-06-17** 06/17/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `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 passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 House 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/2f18c435-094b-4cf6-a16e-ab976ed0f166`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+