---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Establishes audit requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and also establishes annual reporting requirements for health insurers.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Establishes audit requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and also establishes annual reporting requirements for health insurers.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 581"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 581 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business & Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "McKenney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dbc8c3e-7863-4fc7-afd9-54fd6a5a9aad"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "8850b7c82b668f28df41edb6c02c8e7c3fdd3959b968897c36bb365411d057ae"
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 581 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES (Establishes audit requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and also establishes annual reporting requirements for health insurers.)

## Version chain

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

1. **581 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0581A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- McKenney — 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`
- **2019-03-22** 03/22/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/28/2019)
- **2019-03-28** 03/28/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-16** 07/16/2019 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/1dbc8c3e-7863-4fc7-afd9-54fd6a5a9aad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).