---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT (Requires Tricare to pay the healthcare services funding contributions for their contribution enrollees.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT (Requires Tricare to pay the healthcare services funding contributions for their contribution enrollees.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 5401"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5401 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dept. of Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett", "Diaz", "Edwards", "Solomon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc015596-07e0-420e-89a9-e58b6f098caf"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "e4c32c767c5274758f4c2714cd9b39fefd8dc27abe33ca326770125cef8bab03"
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 5401 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES FUNDING PLAN ACT (Requires Tricare to pay the healthcare services funding contributions for their contribution enrollees.)

## Version chain

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

1. **5401** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H5401.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Diaz — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** 02/14/2019 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** 05/03/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/15/2019)
- **2019-05-15** 05/15/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-15** 06/15/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2019)
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-18** 06/18/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2019)
- **2019-06-20** 06/20/2019 House read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-25** 06/25/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-03** 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-08** 07/08/2019 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/fc015596-07e0-420e-89a9-e58b6f098caf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).