---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES"
description: "Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 120"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 120 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Burke", "Ciccone", "DiMario", "Paolino", "Patalano", "Raptakis", "Rogers", "Sosnowski", "Urso"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/188f5112-289d-4f7a-aa58-9be5d0815952"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "88040f940a843fe51b4bf4f5bcd8f83a6156f0b3bb80806e9333ccd6618ff3a7"
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 120 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES

Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.

## Version chain

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

1. **120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0120.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appollonio — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Ciccone — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Paolino — primary (person)
- Patalano — primary (person)
- Raptakis — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Urso — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** 01/31/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/08/2025)
- **2025-05-08** 05/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/18/2025)
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-25** 06/25/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 07/01/2025 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/188f5112-289d-4f7a-aa58-9be5d0815952`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).