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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES"
+description: "Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 487"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 487 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Mack", "Pearson", "Quezada", "Ujifusa", "Vargas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebe70005-0ce0-4fb5-bd82-a0fb2ba663df"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "429a7d563c5800007ea364ba24bd463ebf31f1a4b823a0422b34af41cd17ea1f"
+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 487 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
+
+Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **487 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0487A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–3** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- Mack — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+- Quezada — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Vargas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/08/2025)
+- **2025-04-08** 04/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
+- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A 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/ebe70005-0ce0-4fb5-bd82-a0fb2ba663df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+