---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD BILL"
description: "Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7577"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7577 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Craven", "Donovan", "Edwards", "Felix", "Kazarian", "Kislak", "Knight", "McEntee", "McNamara"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-09"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc8cc0b6-6e85-4111-8999-79e5be5256c7"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "7c07ee738c61c4cae34f015dde29770755ea36262e4b8da750090f0b220a3bdc"
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 7577 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD BILL

Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.

## Version chain

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

1. **7577 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7577A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **50–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ajello — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Felix — primary (person)
- Kazarian — primary (person)
- Kislak — primary (person)
- Knight — primary (person)
- McEntee — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-09** 02/09/2024 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2024)
- **2024-03-05** 03/05/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 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`
- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/cc8cc0b6-6e85-4111-8999-79e5be5256c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).