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RI SB 2855

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AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS

Rhode Island · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Permits students diagnosed with asthma, a condition that may lead to bronchospasm or anaphylaxis, or both, to carry and self-administer asthma medication or auto-injectable or intranasal epinephrine, or both.

Introduced
2026-03-04
Status date
Latest action
2026-03-10 — 03/10/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Pearsonprimary
  • Ursoprimary
  • Felagprimary
  • Mackprimary
  • Ujifusaprimary
  • Vargasprimary
  • Murrayprimary
  • Valverdeprimary
  • DiMarioprimary
  • Lauriaprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2026-03-04

    03/04/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services

    introduction,referral-committee

  2. 2026-03-06

    03/06/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/10/2026)

  3. 2026-03-10

    03/10/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study

    committee-failure

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Related bills

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