---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 (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 -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 (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: "SB 3004"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 3004 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food and Drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cano", "Euer", "Goldin", "Miller", "Seveney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-22"
last_action: "2018-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab0a9742-7595-4cda-828c-90de8ab22bb7"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "2c520f7c01c2bbf50d12f810d8b3e8c240a3ee25ad0013774b47fc99a7429ca2"
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 3004 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- THE GOOD SAMARITAN OVERDOSE PREVENTION ACT OF 2016 (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. **3004 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S3004A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **51–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cano — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Goldin — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Seveney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2018)
- **2018-06-23** 06/23/2018 House passed Sub A 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/ab0a9742-7595-4cda-828c-90de8ab22bb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).