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| Bill | AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE | Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person. | us/states/ri | Rhode Island General Assembly | 2026 | HB 7020 | Rhode Island HB 7020 (2026) |
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Rhode Island HB 7020 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE
Authorizes veterinarians to establish a client-patient relationship through electronic means, subject to limitations and requirements such as Vet making a good faith effort to determine if care should be provided through telemedicine instead of in person.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 7020 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASSAGE — 70–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Baginski — primary (person)
- Brien — primary (person)
- Lima — primary (person)
- Serpa — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-09 01/09/2026 Introduced, referred to House Corporations
introduction, referral-committee - 2026-01-16 01/16/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/20/2026)
- 2026-01-20 01/20/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure - 2026-06-06 06/06/2026 Scheduled for consideration (06/08/2026)
- 2026-06-08 06/08/2026 Committee recommends passage
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-06-08 06/08/2026 Placed on House Calendar (06/09/2026)
reading-3 - 2026-06-09 06/09/2026 House read and passed
passage - 2026-06-10 06/10/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2026)
reading-3 - 2026-06-11 06/11/2026 Senate passed in concurrence
passage - 2026-06-18 06/18/2026 Transmitted to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-06-23 06/23/2026 Signed by Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f85d9037-fa45-427d-9480-28eeb7aafece. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).