---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION"
description: "Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions and potential court sanctions for breach of the arbitration agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2671"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2671 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cano", "Gallo", "LaMountain", "Lawson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5baa7788-ecc5-43fc-b3fe-92b29292ffd6"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "b0757824c062916afaf8eb2d8bbffaf9ea6341052822021464b7fb4b7d21879c"
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 2671 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- ARBITRATION

Spells out additional notice provisions, fees and costs of the arbitration process, from initiation to default provisions and potential court sanctions for breach of the arbitration agreement.

## Version chain

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

1. **2671** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2671.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **55–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cano — primary (person)
- Gallo — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
- Lawson — 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`
- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/26/2024)
- **2024-03-26** 03/26/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-04** 06/04/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2024)
- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Removed from House Consent Calendar and
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 House passed 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/5baa7788-ecc5-43fc-b3fe-92b29292ffd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).