---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- BIOMARKER TESTING COVERAGE (Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for biomarker testing on or after 1/1/23.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- BIOMARKER TESTING COVERAGE (Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for biomarker testing on or after 1/1/23.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7587"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 7587 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ackerman", "Amore", "Baginski", "Bennett", "Chippendale", "Diaz", "Filippi", "McNamara", "Serpa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6961783a-d8fa-4d83-af4f-b5a0d9c3b9a1"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "32661c31a322eece2ac88ffb3c839ed1248d716e82c5302e0595d46dedac97ea"
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 7587 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- BIOMARKER TESTING COVERAGE (Requires health insurers, nonprofit hospital service corporations, nonprofit medical service corporations and health maintenance organizations that issue policies that provide coverage for biomarker testing on or after 1/1/23.)

## Version chain

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

1. **7587 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H7587A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **67–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ackerman — primary (person)
- Amore — primary (person)
- Baginski — primary (person)
- Bennett — primary (person)
- Chippendale — primary (person)
- Diaz — primary (person)
- Filippi — primary (person)
- McNamara — primary (person)
- Serpa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** 02/18/2022 Introduced, referred to House Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-26** 05/26/2022 Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services
- **2022-05-27** 05/27/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2022)
- **2022-06-01** 06/01/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2022-06-15** 06/15/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/17/2022)
- **2022-06-16** 06/16/2022 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2022-06-17** 06/17/2022 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-19** 06/19/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/21/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-21** 06/21/2022 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-27** 06/27/2022 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/6961783a-d8fa-4d83-af4f-b5a0d9c3b9a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).