---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STROKE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT OF 2009 (Permits the department of health to designate hospitals as \"acute stroke ready hospitals.\")"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STROKE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT OF 2009 (Permits the department of health to designate hospitals as \"acute stroke ready hospitals.\")"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 6225"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6225 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals", "Health & Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azzinaro", "Filippi", "Fogarty", "Kennedy", "Price"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-05-17"
last_action: "2017-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/458ea984-2189-41da-beaf-ad923b09bfde"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "275dfb750a175ad96d7eae33aa464dc75dcef0db128db28792b31f28ec61a7be"
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 HB 6225 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STROKE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT OF 2009 (Permits the department of health to designate hospitals as "acute stroke ready hospitals.")

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **6225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H6225.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Azzinaro — primary (person)
- Filippi — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Price — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-17** 05/17/2017 Introduced, referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/24/2017)
- **2017-05-24** 05/24/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/31/2017)
- **2017-05-31** 05/31/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/07/2017)
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 House read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-23** 06/23/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-07-13** 07/13/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-18** 07/18/2017 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/458ea984-2189-41da-beaf-ad923b09bfde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).