republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2019/sb-1021.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	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.)	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.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2019	SB 1021	Rhode Island SB 1021 (2019)	bill	Courts	enacted	Archambault	1	6	2	2019-06-26	2019-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/e0335c2f-9d91-4b45-b1aa-172f28ee483d	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	725a3f475c0e070caa7899adf41446f79cca9c71149aece5d17ec98efe352cb0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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

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; origin ocd-bill/e0335c2f-9d91-4b45-b1aa-172f28ee483d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).