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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- SELF-INSURANCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AGENCIES (Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- SELF-INSURANCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AGENCIES (Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 5529"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5529 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement", "Health Care Plans/Services", "Developmentally Disabled", "Health Insurance", "Handicapped"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hull", "Ruggiero"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5027ee32-4800-4470-9ce6-ed7a3c397316"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "a9e67ea3037bf8f93a19a9496637e4be1820580f2e261ee394283193829daf22"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---
# Rhode Island HB 5529 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS -- SELF-INSURANCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AGENCIES (Authorizes operators of developmental disability agencies, acting as a group, to self-insure health care costs for employees, retirees and other beneficiaries and allows a third-party administrator to administer said program.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **5529 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/HouseText17/H5529A.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **672** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Hull — primary (person)
- Ruggiero — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-16** 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-03-03** 03/03/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2017)
- **2017-03-07** 03/07/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/30/2017)
- **2017-06-30** 06/30/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-15** 09/15/2017 Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (09/19/2017)
- **2017-09-19** 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-10-03** 10/03/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-10-05** 10/05/2017 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5027ee32-4800-4470-9ce6-ed7a3c397316`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).