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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Replaces 2016 opioids guidelines with the 2022 opioid guidelines. Exempts medical professionals from criminal and civil liability or disciplinary action for prescribing medically appropriate opioids.) AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Replaces 2016 opioids guidelines with the 2022 opioid guidelines. Exempts medical professionals from criminal and civil liability or disciplinary action for prescribing medically appropriate opioids.) us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2023 SB 793 Rhode Island SB 793 (2023)
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Rhode Island SB 793 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT (Replaces 2016 opioids guidelines with the 2022 opioid guidelines. Exempts medical professionals from criminal and civil liability or disciplinary action for prescribing medically appropriate opioids.)

Version chain

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

  1. 793 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 370 (pass) · upper
  • IN CONCURRENCE — 710 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Britto — primary (person)
  • Cano — primary (person)
  • DiMario — primary (person)
  • Euer — primary (person)
  • Lauria — primary (person)
  • Lawson — primary (person)
  • Miller — primary (person)
  • Murray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-03-23 03/23/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services introduction, referral-committee
  • 2023-04-14 04/14/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
  • 2023-04-17 04/17/2023 Meeting postponed (04/20/2023)
  • 2023-04-20 04/20/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/27/2023)
  • 2023-04-27 04/27/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2023-05-23 05/23/2023 Scheduled for consideration (05/25/2023)
  • 2023-05-24 05/24/2023 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2023-05-25 05/25/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-26 05/26/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/01/2023) reading-3
  • 2023-06-01 06/01/2023 Senate passed Sub A passage
  • 2023-06-02 06/02/2023 Referred to House Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2023-06-06 06/06/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/08/2023)
  • 2023-06-08 06/08/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2023-06-09 06/09/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/12/2023)
  • 2023-06-12 06/12/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-06-12 06/12/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2023) reading-3
  • 2023-06-13 06/13/2023 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
  • 2023-06-15 06/15/2023 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-23 06/23/2023 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9903ea97-d2d3-44ab-b0b2-28f1eb06c73d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).