Alert: Healthcare Provider Shield Act up for consideration TOMORROW, April 25th

Healthcare Provider Shield Act Up for Consideration

Bill Number: SB2262

Summary: This bill creates a protective legal shield for healthcare providers, precluding any civil/criminal action by other states/persons against healthcare providers involving persons seeking access to transgender and reproductive healthcare services provided in RI.

Our Position: FOR / IN SUPPORT OF

Current Status: Scheduled for Consideration (Senate Judiciary Committee)

When: TOMORROW, April 24th, Rise of the Senate (4:00pm)

Where: Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, State House, Room 313

How You Can Help: Please consider contacting the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell them how important it is that they pass this legislation.

• Senator Dawn Euer: [email protected]

• Senator Frank S. Lombardi: [email protected]

• Senator Leonidas P. Raptakis: [email protected]

• Senator Jacob Bissaillon: [email protected]

• Senator John P. Burke: [email protected]

• Senator Anthony P. DeLuca II: [email protected]

• Senator Matthew L. LaMountain: [email protected]

• Senator Mark P. McKenney: [email protected]

• Senator Ana B. Quezada: [email protected]

• Senator David P. Tikoian: [email protected]

Reminders for Legislative Advocacy

• All times and locations given above are accurate as of the writing of this newsletter, but the RI Legislature is prone to changing time and locations of hearings with little notice. If you want to give in-person testimony for a bill, go to this Bill Lookup Page to double check the bill status and meeting information before you go. Put the bill number (no H, no S) in the Bills input field and hit Enter for the most up to date information.

• Rise of the House or the Senate is when the full House or Senate finishes meeting together and breaks into separate committee meetings.