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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 SB 168 Rhode Island SB 168 (2025)
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Rhode Island SB 168 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- BENEFIT DETERMINATION AND UTILIZATION REVIEW ACT

Provides an insurer would not impose prior authorization requirements for any service ordered by an in-network primary care provider.

Version chain

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

  1. 168 SUB B (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 350 (pass) · upper
  • IN CONCURRENCE — 700 (pass) · upper
  • Passage — 360 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bissaillon — primary (person)
  • Felag — primary (person)
  • Lawson — primary (person)
  • Murray — primary (person)
  • Ruggerio — primary (person)
  • Sosnowski — primary (person)
  • Tikoian — primary (person)
  • Vargas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-05 02/05/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-07 03/07/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/13/2025)
  • 2025-03-13 03/13/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2025-04-18 04/18/2025 Scheduled for consideration
  • 2025-04-21 04/21/2025 Meeting postponed (04/22/2025)
  • 2025-04-29 04/29/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/01/2025)
  • 2025-04-30 04/30/2025 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2025-05-01 05/01/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-02 05/02/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/06/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-05-06 05/06/2025 Senate passed Sub A passage
  • 2025-05-07 05/07/2025 Referred to House Health & Human Services referral-committee
  • 2025-06-13 06/13/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2025)
  • 2025-06-13 06/13/2025 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2025-06-16 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub B committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-06-16 06/16/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 House passed Sub B passage
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-20 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub B in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-27 06/27/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-07-02 07/02/2025 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dd81c6f-66b7-4d49-b8fc-ff7e4a9bc3dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).