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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT"
+description: "Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a \"direction to pay\" executed by an insured for payment on a property damage benefit would constitute an unfair claims practice."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2681"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2681 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burke", "LaMountain", "McKenney", "Tikoian"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-03-01"
+last_action: "2024-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69668120-017d-40ac-9b94-5e5b9d419460"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "22a97775f4c4eb39906009c774358277206bb3c12e2654cd7abcd4d0160006a1"
+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 2681 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- UNFAIR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT PRACTICES ACT
+
+Provides that any insurer refusing to honor a "direction to pay" executed by an insured for payment on a property damage benefit would constitute an unfair claims practice.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2681 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2681A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–5** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **58–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/14/2024)
+- **2024-03-14** 03/14/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-06-08** 06/08/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2024)
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-29** 06/29/2024 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69668120-017d-40ac-9b94-5e5b9d419460`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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