---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Amends the definition of health care facility to allow a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital to own and operate ambulatory-care facilities.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Amends the definition of health care facility to allow a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital to own and operate ambulatory-care facilities.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 577"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 577 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health & Safety", "Licenses", "Physicians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Goldin", "Miller", "Sheehan", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-15"
last_action: "2017-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dacf294-92c2-4f8f-b03d-c0638271309f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "4cbfe0f8b0871e442329c53c494b5d5a13b6bec13985042b0483817668f29e85"
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 577 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - LICENSING (Amends the definition of health care facility to allow a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital to own and operate ambulatory-care facilities.)

## Version chain

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

1. **577 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0577Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- Approval of Amendment — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage as Amended — **33–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Crowley — primary (person)
- Goldin — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Sheehan — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-15** 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-28** 03/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/30/2017)
- **2017-03-30** 03/30/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
- **2017-05-23** 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-24** 05/24/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/01/2017)
- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Referred to House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-07-18** 07/18/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-19** 07/19/2017 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/7dacf294-92c2-4f8f-b03d-c0638271309f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).