2025 Regular Session • Rhode Island Legislature
H5218: Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.
Legislative Summary
INSURANCE -- ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE POLICIES - Increases insurance coverage for hearing aids from one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) to one thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,750), per ear, for all people regardless of age effective January 1, 2026.
Demographic Impact
Overall analysis of equity impact
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Bill History
1/29/2025
Introduced, referred to House Health & Human Services
House of Representatives
3/7/2025
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/13/2025)
House of Representatives
3/13/2025
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
House of Representatives
3/21/2025
Scheduled for consideration (03/27/2025)
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Committee recommends passage
House of Representatives
4/4/2025
Placed on House Calendar (04/10/2025)
House of Representatives
4/10/2025
House read and passed
House of Representatives
Roll Call Votes
Passage
4/10/2025
67
Yea
0
Nay
8
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Status Information
Current Status
Engrossed(4/10/2025)
Chamber
Senate
