---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Adds two (2) requirements that a hospital provide to a prospective patient, the requested cost estimate of their requested anticipated hospital services within five (5) calendar days of request and the cost of any facility fee.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Adds two (2) requirements that a hospital provide to a prospective patient, the requested cost estimate of their requested anticipated hospital services within five (5) calendar days of request and the cost of any facility fee.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 6298"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 6298 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals", "Health & Safety", "Licenses", "Health Care Plans/Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blazejewski", "Casimiro", "Knight", "Marszalkowski", "Regunberg"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2017-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f91c421a-8117-4603-b793-e91c85fd73a5"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "c2707bf9646b6572fcd2ea605fff75df1fa039764f6ab694ebb802d7a03b2885"
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 6298 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Adds two (2) requirements that a hospital provide to a prospective patient, the requested cost estimate of their requested anticipated hospital services within five (5) calendar days of request and the cost of any facility fee.)

## Version chain

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

1. **6298 SUB A as amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H6298Aaa.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blazejewski — primary (person)
- Casimiro — primary (person)
- Knight — primary (person)
- Marszalkowski — primary (person)
- Regunberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/13/2017)
- **2017-06-13** 06/13/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/29/2017)
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Senate passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Placed on House Calendar (06/30/2017)
- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A as amended in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-09-28** 09/28/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-10-04** 10/04/2017 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/f91c421a-8117-4603-b793-e91c85fd73a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).