---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH"
description: "Designates, for fiscal year 2025, the usage for certain funds within the immunization account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7204"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7204 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Cortvriend", "Fenton-Fung", "Fogarty", "McEntee", "Shallcross Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ec6ced8-8cb5-495a-8a82-1a3ab30b9b25"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "7b0752d1dd2c5d172cc261767c3a52f0b79f1c163a8fbe9d0006b72f353f86a0"
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 7204 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Designates, for fiscal year 2025, the usage for certain funds within the immunization account.

## Version chain

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

1. **7204 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7204A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ajello — primary (person)
- Cortvriend — primary (person)
- Fenton-Fung — primary (person)
- Fogarty — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- Shallcross Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** 01/17/2024 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Scheduled for hearing (05/01/2024)
- **2024-05-01** 05/01/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2024)
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-28** 06/28/2024 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ec6ced8-8cb5-495a-8a82-1a3ab30b9b25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).