---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES"
description: "Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5353"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5353 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Casimiro", "Donovan", "Morales", "Noret", "Shanley", "Solomon", "Speakman", "Spears"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e7ee969-c43a-4bcd-b026-25b4aa3fb9f5"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c0aebdf201c908ff897cfcca67519f4f649feb770d81bd5152c7d1ea5207e673"
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 5353 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHARMACIES

Authorizes a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern to perform technology-assisted dispensing process validation for medications prepared for distribution by another pharmacy technician or intern within an institutional pharmacy.

## Version chain

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

1. **5353 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5353A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **64–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Casimiro — primary (person)
- Donovan — primary (person)
- Morales — primary (person)
- Noret — primary (person)
- Shanley — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Speakman — primary (person)
- Spears — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** 02/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/25/2025)
- **2025-02-25** 02/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (03/18/2025)
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** 03/24/2025 Scheduled for reconsideration (03/27/2025)
- **2025-03-24** 03/24/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-03-27** 03/27/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Placed on House Calendar (04/08/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** 04/08/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-21** 06/21/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** 06/30/2025 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/9e7ee969-c43a-4bcd-b026-25b4aa3fb9f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).