---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 574"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 574 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Death", "Dept. of Health", "Health & Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crowley", "Goldin", "Lawson", "Satchell", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/889b185a-1b3d-4c5e-b279-590dc05f8311"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "0cba70819187d1740efa101c14c700d4377cb3c3731b929b6d4e1185c53ce4aa"
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 574 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS (Adds the multi-disciplinary maternal mortality review committee to the review of the office of state medical examiners and extend certain immunities and confidentiality agreements to multi-disciplinary teams.)

## Version chain

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

1. **574 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0574A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **72–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Crowley — primary (person)
- Goldin — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Satchell — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-14** 03/14/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** 03/15/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/21/2019)
- **2019-03-21** 03/21/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-05-31** 05/31/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2019)
- **2019-06-03** 06/03/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommended indefinite postponement
- **2019-06-04** 06/04/2019 Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study
- **2019-06-14** 06/14/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-17** 06/17/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2019)
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** 06/21/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/24/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on House Calendar
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-08** 07/08/2019 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/889b185a-1b3d-4c5e-b279-590dc05f8311`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).