---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 32"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 32 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abortion", "Health & Safety", "Health Insurance", "State Affairs", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lawson", "Mack", "Miller", "Murray", "Pearson", "Sosnowski", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5176d364-8061-4a89-be78-9cae831b709a"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "8a0152c0499becdd68bf9e4b44372cedc883401e67a34b37a096aad449516ef3"
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 32 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN--EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE (Provides for abortion coverage in the Medicaid program and repeals the abortion coverage exclusion for state employee insurance plans.)

## Version chain

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

1. **32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText23/SenateText23/S0032.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **16–49** (fail) · upper
- Passage — **24–13** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT — **14–49** (fail) · upper
- EQUALITY IN ABORTION COVERAGE — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **46–20** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** 01/18/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-05** 05/05/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2023)
- **2023-05-09** 05/09/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2023-05-12** 05/12/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/16/2023)
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-16** 05/16/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/18/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Placed on House Calendar (05/18/2023) `reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-18** 05/18/2023 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/5176d364-8061-4a89-be78-9cae831b709a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).