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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Senate Hearing on the Sedation Bill (Thursday, April 30, 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 24px;"&gt;Senate Health &amp;amp; Human Services Committee&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;RI State House - Room 211&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Thursday, April 30th at 4:30pm&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font color="#FF0000"&gt;The H&amp;amp;HS Committee will be hearing testimony on the Senate version of the sedation bill.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font color="#FF0000"&gt;This bill would severely impact your ability to provide mild and moderate sedation to non-intubated patients. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;font color="#FF0000"&gt;We are all in this together as a profession. &amp;nbsp;Even if you do not provide sedation to your patients, please support your colleagues that do in opposing this legislation.&lt;/font&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Please come to the State House and sign in as opposed to this bill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Here is the text of the bill.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S3184.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000FF"&gt;Senate Bill 3184&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;If you can not make it to the State House Click Here for more ways you can help!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://riapa.org/Take-Action-2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000FF"&gt;Click Here To Help&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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