republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2018/sb-2570.md

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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE GENERALLY - THE STATE FALSE CLAIM ACT (Amends the State False Claims Act to reflect amendments to the Federal False Claims Act.)	AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE GENERALLY - THE STATE FALSE CLAIM ACT (Amends the State False Claims Act to reflect amendments to the Federal False Claims Act.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2018	SB 2570	Rhode Island SB 2570 (2018)	bill	Attorney General Courts	enacted	Conley Coyne DiPalma Euer Pearson	1	14	2	2018-03-01	2018-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8fecb160-98d6-47da-bd8d-489b8195e1f1	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	00defaec42a5d6c9b00a39a0990c4572f80055c0733095be5b93075fc1efde2b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 2570 (2018) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE - PROCEDURE GENERALLY - THE STATE FALSE CLAIM ACT (Amends the State False Claims Act to reflect amendments to the Federal False Claims Act.)

Version chain

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

1. 2570 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• IN CONCURRENCE — 72–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Conley — primary (person)
• Coyne — primary (person)
• DiPalma — primary (person)
• Euer — primary (person)
• Pearson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-01 03/01/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary introduction, referral-committee
• 2018-03-16 03/16/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/20/2018)
• 2018-03-20 03/20/2018 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2018-05-11 05/11/2018 Scheduled for consideration (05/17/2018)
• 2018-05-17 05/17/2018 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-05-22 05/22/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/24/2018)
• 2018-05-24 05/24/2018 Senate read and passed passage
• 2018-05-25 05/25/2018 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-06-16 06/16/2018 Scheduled for consideration (06/19/2018)
• 2018-06-19 06/19/2018 Committee recommends passage in concurrence committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-19 06/19/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/20/2018)
• 2018-06-20 06/20/2018 House passed in concurrence passage
• 2018-07-02 07/02/2018 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-07-02 07/02/2018 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fecb160-98d6-47da-bd8d-489b8195e1f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).