---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- NALOXONE ACCESS (Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- NALOXONE ACCESS (Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 8313"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8313 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food and Drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett", "Craven", "Diaz", "Giarrusso", "Hull"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-06-13"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84a0f252-e018-4569-9231-ac46cb3d7899"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "849e98db421caef4ae90aba8f396e0e91d53a0757ac8b7af317b3d10fa3c3d20"
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 8313 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- NALOXONE ACCESS (Requires the director of the department of health to develop best practices for co-prescribing opioid antagonists to patients who are prescribed opioid analgesics.)

## Version chain

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

1. **8313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/HouseText18/H8313.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Diaz — primary (person)
- Giarrusso — primary (person)
- Hull — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-13** 06/13/2018 Introduced, referred to House H.E.W. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** 06/18/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/19/2018)
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 House read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-02** 07/02/2018 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/84a0f252-e018-4569-9231-ac46cb3d7899`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).