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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS - CONTRIBUTION AMONG JOINT TORTFEASORS (Provides that a release by one claimant relative to claims relating to the Feld Entertainment/Ringling Brothers Circus accident of 5/4/14 would not discharge other joint tortfeasors.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS - CONTRIBUTION AMONG JOINT TORTFEASORS (Provides that a release by one claimant relative to claims relating to the Feld Entertainment/Ringling Brothers Circus accident of 5/4/14 would not discharge other joint tortfeasors.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 494"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 494 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Procedure", "Claims", "Courts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Euer", "Lynch Prata", "McCaffrey", "McKenney"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-27"
+last_action: "2019-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d89df072-9c3f-4677-8c68-ef5922a9e857"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "3a17c5b3a569818fac872c6a58a24020c093e6d7491089ae8536b7cc8e100d8a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
+---
+
+# Rhode Island SB 494 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS - CONTRIBUTION AMONG JOINT TORTFEASORS (Provides that a release by one claimant relative to claims relating to the Feld Entertainment/Ringling Brothers Circus accident of 5/4/14 would not discharge other joint tortfeasors.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **494 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S0494A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **61–10** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **37–1** (pass) · upper
+- In Concurrence — **37–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Archambault — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lynch Prata — primary (person)
+- McCaffrey — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-27** 02/27/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-22** 03/22/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/28/2019)
+- **2019-03-28** 03/28/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2019-04-26** 04/26/2019 Scheduled for consideration (04/30/2019)
+- **2019-04-30** 04/30/2019 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-01** 05/01/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/07/2019)
+- **2019-05-07** 05/07/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-08** 05/08/2019 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/28/2019)
+- **2019-05-24** 05/24/2019 Proposed Substitute
+- **2019-05-28** 05/28/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-28** 05/28/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2019)
+- **2019-06-06** 06/06/2019 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2019-06-11** 06/11/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2019)
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-13** 06/13/2019 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d89df072-9c3f-4677-8c68-ef5922a9e857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+