---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY (Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY (Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1021"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 1021 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 6
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-06-26"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0335c2f-9d91-4b45-b1aa-172f28ee483d"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "725a3f475c0e070caa7899adf41446f79cca9c71149aece5d17ec98efe352cb0"
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 1021 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE GENERALLY (Provides that an open and obvious danger or defect is not a complete bar to recovery of damages in personal injury or property damage actions.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **1021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/SenateText19/S1021.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **67–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **35–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/27/2019)
- **2019-06-27** 06/27/2019 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 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/e0335c2f-9d91-4b45-b1aa-172f28ee483d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).