---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2112"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2112 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health & Safety", "Hospitals", "Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "Goodwin", "Lombardo", "McCaffrey", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d83a988-404d-4531-be23-e0f8530839e9"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "834351aa0ae967fa0a23f0dd0838722d21a929ba0b002d5af634f7c4a6484799"
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 2112 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)

## Version chain

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

1. **2112** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2112.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- McCaffrey — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-23** 01/23/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-27** 04/27/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/01/2018)
- **2018-05-01** 05/01/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** 05/03/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/09/2018)
- **2018-05-09** 05/09/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-05-10** 05/10/2018 Referred to House H.E.W. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** 06/19/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2018)
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-26** 06/26/2018 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/0d83a988-404d-4531-be23-e0f8530839e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).