republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/hb-8166.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)	AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	HB 8166	Rhode Island HB 8166 (2018)	bill	Health & Safety Hospitals Retirement State Affairs	enacted	Ackerman Mattiello McNamara Shekarchi Slater	1	11	1	2018-05-04	2018-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/0c682cc7-b5da-44bc-879a-6f3a34b9a99a	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	180e5c5fb5d3b47b12a3056b0b8781509ae707686867e0509e045fefc411e027	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 8166 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - THE HOSPITAL CONVERSIONS ACT (Applies to settlement of St. Joseph Hospital Retirement Plan settlements/joint tortfeasors' releases.)

Version chain

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

1. 8166 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 68–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ackerman — primary (person)
• Mattiello — primary (person)
• McNamara — primary (person)
• Shekarchi — primary (person)
• Slater — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-05-04 05/04/2018 Introduced, referred to House H.E.W. introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-05-11 05/11/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/16/2018)
• 2018-05-16 05/16/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2018-06-08 06/08/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2018)
• 2018-06-13 06/13/2018 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-16 06/16/2018 Placed on House Calendar (06/19/2018)
• 2018-06-19 06/19/2018 House read and passed passage
• 2018-06-20 06/20/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2018)
• 2018-06-20 06/20/2018 Senate passed in concurrence passage
• 2018-06-21 06/21/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-26 06/26/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c682cc7-b5da-44bc-879a-6f3a34b9a99a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).