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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE"
+description: "Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the definition of “collaborative practice committee.”"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2866"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2866 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lauria", "Murray", "Thompson", "Ujifusa", "Urso", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-03-04"
+last_action: "2026-06-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5f6488e-c700-4665-814c-8466ca79b992"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "665e317a718a3b5fb1cf11660de5988aeff6fda80219b1df3038a0ba81554780"
+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 2866 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COLLABORATIVE PHARMACY PRACTICE
+
+Expands the existing law regarding collaborative practice agreements between pharmacists and physicians to allow other healthcare providers to enter into such agreements and removes the definition of “collaborative practice committee.”
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2866** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2866.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acosta — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Thompson — primary (person)
+- Ujifusa — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-03-04** 03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-27** 03/27/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/02/2026)
+- **2026-04-02** 04/02/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-06-06** 06/06/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/09/2026)
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-06-09** 06/09/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/11/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-11** 06/11/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-16** 06/16/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-22** 06/22/2026 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/f5f6488e-c700-4665-814c-8466ca79b992`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+