---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES"
description: "Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 487"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acosta", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lauria", "Lawson", "Mack", "Pearson", "Quezada", "Ujifusa", "Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebe70005-0ce0-4fb5-bd82-a0fb2ba663df"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "429a7d563c5800007ea364ba24bd463ebf31f1a4b823a0422b34af41cd17ea1f"
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 487 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- LICENSING OF HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

Prohibits any healthcare facility, from asking the legal immigration status of any patient.

## Version chain

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

1. **487 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0487A.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–3** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acosta — primary (person)
- DiMario — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Lawson — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Quezada — primary (person)
- Ujifusa — primary (person)
- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/08/2025)
- **2025-04-08** 04/08/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/02/2025)
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/04/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 House passed Sub A 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/ebe70005-0ce0-4fb5-bd82-a0fb2ba663df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).