---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT"
description: "Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2262"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2262 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "DiPalma", "Euer", "Lombardi", "Mack", "McKenney", "Miller", "Murray", "Pearson", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d0a5ef7-b36e-48a5-85ce-8fedbe330d56"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "df7aa5b3d377d66caac7120c142f28ef7e34a06a786a0696688e10fb18047172"
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 2262 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SHIELD ACT

Creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.

## Version chain

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

1. **2262 SUB B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2262B.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **50–14** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **31–6** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **30–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- DiPalma — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- Lombardi — primary (person)
- Mack — primary (person)
- McKenney — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Murray — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08** 02/08/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2024-03-02** 03/02/2024 Meeting postponed (03/05/2024)
- **2024-03-02** 03/02/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2024)
- **2024-03-07** 03/07/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-04-23** 04/23/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/25/2024)
- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-26** 04/26/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/02/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-05-03** 05/03/2024 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub B `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 House passed Sub B `passage`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub B in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 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/0d0a5ef7-b36e-48a5-85ce-8fedbe330d56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).