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legislation/us/states/ri/2021/sb-679.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 679"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 679 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Domestic Relations", "Judiciary", "Marriage"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Burke"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-18"
+last_action: "2021-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b17c517-09fd-4557-af72-373befc28c24"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "364098b504cd826093bf11d30ecdd660ed250235f46f78aaf1d21149ab338f2a"
+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 679 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES (Adds the administrator of the supreme court as an individual authorized to perform marriages and would clarify that the current administrators of the superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal are empowered to perform marriages.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **679** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S0679.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **71–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Archambault — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-18** 03/18/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** 03/26/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/29/2021)
+- **2021-03-29** 03/29/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2021-04-30** 04/30/2021 Scheduled for consideration (05/06/2021)
+- **2021-05-06** 05/06/2021 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-07** 05/07/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2021)
+- **2021-05-11** 05/11/2021 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-12** 05/12/2021 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-11** 06/11/2021 Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2021)
+- **2021-06-15** 06/15/2021 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-06-18** 06/18/2021 Placed on House Calendar (06/22/2021)
+- **2021-06-22** 06/22/2021 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2021-06-23** 06/23/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 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/5b17c517-09fd-4557-af72-373befc28c24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+