---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS"
description: "Includes among the responsibilities of the office of state medical examiners, to provide a multidisciplinary team review of suicide deaths with a goal of reducing its prevalence by examining trends in demographic, geographic and community risk factors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7732"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7732 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Casey", "Edwards", "Solomon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-28"
last_action: "2024-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4b55144-d640-497b-8867-3dcd84fd8d52"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "5c5e608d79a636e7f6c42144eab942626f3b27b0fbd317dba8324508346270e4"
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 7732 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- OFFICE OF STATE MEDICAL EXAMINERS

Includes among the responsibilities of the office of state medical examiners, to provide a multidisciplinary team review of suicide deaths with a goal of reducing its prevalence by examining trends in demographic, geographic and community risk factors.

## Version chain

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

1. **7732** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7732.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Casey — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-28** 02/28/2024 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/12/2024)
- **2024-03-12** 03/12/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-20** 05/20/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2024)
- **2024-05-23** 05/23/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-24** 05/24/2024 Placed on House Calendar (05/28/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 House read and passed `passage`
- **2024-05-29** 05/29/2024 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2024)
- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-17** 06/17/2024 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/a4b55144-d640-497b-8867-3dcd84fd8d52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).