---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS"
description: "Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2078"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2078 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "Lombardi", "Lombardo", "Paolino", "Picard", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "de la Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82695a46-10b4-489a-9751-2a9dc87379ad"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "e27b0bc634a53ed2ac7ced68b07e90b678042ded3df520f50724df1d62024f33"
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 2078 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- DISCLOSURE OF PRICES -- MEDICAL FACILITY ITEMS

Provides a procedure requiring that healthcare facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all Medical facility items.

## Version chain

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

1. **2078** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2078.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Lombardo — primary (person)
- Paolino — primary (person)
- Picard — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- de la Cruz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** 01/12/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2024)
- **2024-03-19** 03/19/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-05-28** 05/28/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/30/2024)
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-30** 05/30/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-05** 06/05/2024 Referred to House Health & Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-09** 06/09/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2024)
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-28** 06/28/2024 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82695a46-10b4-489a-9751-2a9dc87379ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).