republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2024/sb-2255.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION	Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any copayment or the meeting of any deductible to obtain the prescription covered by the contract, plan, or policy.	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2024	SB 2255	Rhode Island SB 2255 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bissaillon Lauria Miller Murray Pearson Quezada Sosnowski Tikoian Ujifusa Valverde	1	19	3	2024-02-06	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/a157aa01-ba9e-45dd-aa1b-6276363f8f0e	https://status.rilegislature.gov/	bf7044e0d037d8cfba3032b79afc8fe2ae18f4f98353aabfc7d0be95baba27af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2255 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES -- INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PREVENTION OF HIV INFECTION

Eliminates prior authorization or step therapy requirement for prescriptions for any HIV prevention drug/prohibits the requirement of any copayment or the meeting of any deductible to obtain the prescription covered by the contract, plan, or policy.

Version chain

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

1. 2255 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 69–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bissaillon — primary (person)
• Lauria — primary (person)
• Miller — primary (person)
• Murray — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)
• Quezada — primary (person)
• Sosnowski — primary (person)
• Tikoian — primary (person)
• Ujifusa — primary (person)
• Valverde — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-06 02/06/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 02/09/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
• 2024-02-12 02/12/2024 Meeting postponed (02/13/2024)
• 2024-02-12 02/12/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/15/2024)
• 2024-02-15 02/15/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
• 2024-03-01 03/01/2024 Scheduled for consideration (03/05/2024)
• 2024-03-05 03/05/2024 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 03/08/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/14/2024) reading-3
• 2024-03-14 03/14/2024 Senate read and passed passage
• 2024-03-15 03/15/2024 Referred to House Health & Human Services referral-committee
• 2024-06-02 06/02/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2024)
• 2024-06-03 06/03/2024 Proposed Substitute substitution
• 2024-06-04 06/04/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-04 06/04/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-06 06/06/2024 House passed Sub A passage
• 2024-06-07 06/07/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-11 06/11/2024 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2024-06-12 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-17 06/17/2024 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a157aa01-ba9e-45dd-aa1b-6276363f8f0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).