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3/10/2025
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Media Advisory: House Health, Human Services Committee to hear variety of bills
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STATE HOUSE – The House Health and Human Services Committee meets Thursday for hearings on numerous bills. The committee has scheduled votes on two bills.
The committee is scheduled to meet Thursday, March 13, at the rise of the House session (sometime after 4:30 p.m.) in the Room 135 on the first floor of the State House.
The committee has scheduled votes on two bills:
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2025-H 5427 — Sponsored by Rep. Michelle McGaw (D-Dist. 71, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Little Compton) at the request of the Department of Health, this bill would include the COVID-19 immunization under the consent and reporting provisions required for pharmacy-administered immunizations to individuals between 9 and 18 years of age.
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2025-H 5495 — This bill sponsored by Rep. Rebecca Kislak (D-Dist. 4, Providence) at the request of the Department of Health would authorize midwives, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants attending a newborn to cause that child to be subject to newborn screening tests for conditions for which there is a medical benefit to the early detection and treatment of the disorder.
Among the bills the committee is scheduled to hear are:
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2025-H 5629—Sponsored by Rep. Karen Alzate (D-Dist. 60, Pawtucket, Central Falls), this bill would amend the current law on health insurance coverage for fertility diagnostic care, standard fertility preservation services, and fertility treatment and require coverage for any medically necessary ovulation-enhancing drugs and medical services.
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2025-H 5630 — The Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act, sponsored by Health and Human Services Committee Chairwoman Susan R. Donovan (D-Dist. 69, Bristol, Portsmouth), would require certain health care facilities to allow a terminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis, subject to certain restrictions.
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2025-H 5854 — This bill sponsored by Rep. Teresa A. Tanzi (D-Dist. 34, South Kingstown, Narragansett) would set forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies, including education approved by state Board of Pharmacy, and would require cessation therapies to be covered by all health insurance carriers beginning Jan. 1, 2026.
The meeting will be televised by Capitol Television, which can be seen on Cox channels 15 and 61, on i3Broadband channel 15 and on Verizon channel 34. It will be live streamed at capitoltvri.cablecast.tv.
Testimony on the bills being heard will be accepted in person or in writing via email to HouseHealthandHumanServices@rilegislature.gov. Written testimony must include a name and any applicable organization, the bill number(s) and viewpoint (for/against/neither). It will be considered a public document.
For more information, contact:
Larry Berman, Communications Director for the Office of the Speaker
State House Room 322
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 222-2466
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