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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS"
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description: "Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
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legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 5550"
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citation: "Rhode Island HB 5550 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Batista", "Shanley"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2025-02-26"
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last_action: "2025-06-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9933dd7-6271-4e08-bb05-0c2b3b10110f"
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source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
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source_hash: "5fa5bba8a20f8d879e992f06850b3e11ed7a34565ea287d2aec6c3e9ee7c1066"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
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---
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# Rhode Island HB 5550 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- DENTISTS AND DENTAL HYGIENISTS
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Standardizes successor appointment language for various boards and adds language providing that a quorum be a majority of appointed members and the language applies across several healthcare professional boards that currently lack this language.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **5550** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5550.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **69–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Batista — primary (person)
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- Shanley — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-27** 02/27/2025 Committee transferred to House Health & Human Services
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- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/18/2025)
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- **2025-03-18** 03/18/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
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- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/01/2025)
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- **2025-04-01** 04/01/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-18** 04/18/2025 Placed on House Calendar (04/22/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-22** 04/22/2025 House read and passed `passage`
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- **2025-05-02** 05/02/2025 Referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/03/2025)
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- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-06-13** 06/13/2025 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
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- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-24** 06/24/2025 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9933dd7-6271-4e08-bb05-0c2b3b10110f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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