---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT"
description: "Adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and would establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact commission to administer the provisions of the compact between the states."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 8219"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 8219 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fogarty", "Handy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-05-01"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07a8c1f3-7a51-47b8-acfb-e6d0f1b38f38"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "2b9295eb80eaf4d3c9159591f608d9348a74b02c6cfcf5a98505ab11c6a7d583"
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 8219 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT

Adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and would establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact commission to administer the provisions of the compact between the states.

## Version chain

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

1. **8219** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H8219.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fogarty — primary (person)
- Handy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-01** 05/01/2024 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2024)
- **2024-05-09** 05/09/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `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 read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 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/07a8c1f3-7a51-47b8-acfb-e6d0f1b38f38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).