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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- STATE AND MUNICIPAL COURT COMPACT"
description: "Authorizes the use of automated traffic violation monitoring systems for all traffic signal laws, including the \"Don't Block the Box Statute\" and allows for jurisdiction of the Don't Block the Box statute violations to be within a municipal court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2770"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2770 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bissaillon", "Ruggerio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-08"
last_action: "2024-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a46d7080-a33a-4ee4-ab78-74c1e6586ba9"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "c3436db75745b66003326a66a98adee03017a8dc8142c867c09e05e5c990680a"
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 2770 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- STATE AND MUNICIPAL COURT COMPACT
Authorizes the use of automated traffic violation monitoring systems for all traffic signal laws, including the "Don't Block the Box Statute" and allows for jurisdiction of the Don't Block the Box statute violations to be within a municipal court.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2770 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2770A.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **508** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **277** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bissaillon — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/25/2024)
- **2024-04-25** 04/25/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/13/2024)
- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-06-14** 06/14/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-06-20** 06/20/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-28** 06/28/2024 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/a46d7080-a33a-4ee4-ab78-74c1e6586ba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).