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| Bill | AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT (Raises the minimum recovery in a civil action to recover for a wrongful death from $250,000 to $350,000 and automatically increases for inflation the minimum recovery annually on January 31. The increase is based on the consumer price index.) | AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT (Raises the minimum recovery in a civil action to recover for a wrongful death from $250,000 to $350,000 and automatically increases for inflation the minimum recovery annually on January 31. The increase is based on the consumer price index.) | us/states/ri | Rhode Island General Assembly | 2023 | SB 1056 | Rhode Island SB 1056 (2023) |
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1 | 12 | 2 | 2023-05-19 | 2023-06-24 | openstates | ocd-bill/b2e50f22-cae2-4fe5-90ba-bd574914562c | https://status.rilegislature.gov/ | a18632a3a5c0e0cb885f181bf407ebb32c3b28a8d58fedadc35ccb4931893231 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Rhode Island SB 1056 (2023) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE--PROCEDURE IN PARTICULAR ACTIONS -- DEATH BY WRONGFUL ACT (Raises the minimum recovery in a civil action to recover for a wrongful death from $250,000 to $350,000 and automatically increases for inflation the minimum recovery annually on January 31. The increase is based on the consumer price index.)
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 1056 SUB A (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — 72–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Euer — primary (person)
- LaMountain — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-05-19 05/19/2023 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
introduction, referral-committee - 2023-05-26 05/26/2023 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/01/2023)
- 2023-06-01 06/01/2023 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
committee-failure - 2023-06-10 06/10/2023 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2023)
- 2023-06-12 06/12/2023 Proposed Substitute
substitution - 2023-06-13 06/13/2023 Committee recommends passage of Sub A
committee-passage-favorable - 2023-06-13 06/13/2023 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/14/2023)
reading-3 - 2023-06-14 06/14/2023 Senate passed Sub A
passage - 2023-06-15 06/15/2023 Placed on House Calendar (06/15/2023)
reading-3 - 2023-06-15 06/15/2023 House passed Sub A in concurrence
passage - 2023-06-16 06/16/2023 Transmitted to Governor
executive-receipt - 2023-06-24 06/24/2023 Effective without Governor's signature
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2e50f22-cae2-4fe5-90ba-bd574914562c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).