---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS"
description: "Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5550"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5550 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Batista", "Shanley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9933dd7-6271-4e08-bb05-0c2b3b10110f"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "5fa5bba8a20f8d879e992f06850b3e11ed7a34565ea287d2aec6c3e9ee7c1066"
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 5550 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS

Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.

## Version chain

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

1. **5550** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5550.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **69–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Batista — primary (person)
- Shanley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** 02/27/2025 Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services
- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/01/2025)
- **2025-04-01** 04/01/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (04/22/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22** 04/22/2025 House read and passed `passage`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/03/2025)
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 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/b9933dd7-6271-4e08-bb05-0c2b3b10110f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).