This bill removes current statutes limiting coverage of contraceptive prescriptions to three-month supplies.

This bill authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives.

This bill establishes the right to some specific data privacy protections for consumers in Rhode Island, including special rights and protections for sensitive information.

This bill is a shield law protecting providers of reproductive health care and gender affirming care (legally protected healthcare) from out of state investigations in a variety of ways including: providing a cause of action for anyone who had been sued for providing legally protected health care to respond with a civil action to recover any damages, preventing state courts from enforcing a foreign judgment in connection with legally protected activity, prohibiting state courts from ordering anyone in the state to give testimony or produce evidence to an out of state court regarding this type of care or issue a search warrant for such investigations, prohibiting all state agencies, employees from cooperating with or using state resources in furtherance of such investigations. The law also protects providers from licensure discipline and discriminatory actions on the part of insurers for providing this care. Finally, the bill prohibits the governor from extraditing someone accused of a crime relating to legally protected healthcare, in most cases.

This bill establishes abortion coverage in the Medicaid program, covered by state funds except when authorized to be covered under federal law, and removes a previous prohibition on state employee insurance coverage.