republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2238.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.)	AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	SB 2238	Rhode Island SB 2238 (2018)	bill	Health & Safety Medical	enacted	Calkin Coyne DiPalma Miller Seveney	1	14	2	2018-02-01	2018-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/e111f81c-6533-49d4-9645-a6747eb7eda9	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	b3f3399491ceb730720483b1d99f5175f227598b973f5fbc0b3e8f803fde8864	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2238 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LICENSING OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (Requires all hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities to adopt policies to use a smoke evacuation system for surgical procedures that generate surgical smoke.)

Version chain

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

1. 2238 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• IN CONCURRENCE — 70–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calkin — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)
• Seveney — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-01 02/01/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-02-23 02/23/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2018)
• 2018-03-01 03/01/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2018-03-23 03/23/2018 Scheduled for consideration (03/27/2018)
• 2018-03-27 03/27/2018 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-28 03/28/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/03/2018)
• 2018-04-03 04/03/2018 Senate read and passed passage
• 2018-04-04 04/04/2018 Referred to House H.E.W. referral-committee
• 2018-05-18 05/18/2018 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2018)
• 2018-05-23 05/23/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-05-25 05/25/2018 Placed on House Calendar (05/30/2018)
• 2018-05-30 05/30/2018 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2018-05-30 05/30/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-04 06/04/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e111f81c-6533-49d4-9645-a6747eb7eda9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).