RI S 0627: Artificial Intelligence Act

Rhode Island legislature · 2025 Regular · Sen. DiPalma, Sen. Gu, Sen. Burke et al.

Status as of 2025-03-07

In committee

Last action: Introduced and referred to Senate Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology.

AI legal services and unauthorized practice

Rhode Island S 0627 proposes an Artificial Intelligence Act for high-risk AI systems. The definition of consequential decision expressly includes the provision, denial, terms, or conditions of legal services, placing AI systems used for those legal-services decisions within the bill’s high-risk framework. It was introduced and referred March 7, 2025.

Operative sections

R.I. Gen. Laws §6-61-2(3): consequential decisions include provision, denial, terms, or conditions of legal services.
R.I. Gen. Laws §6-61-2(9): high-risk AI systems include systems that make or substantially factor into consequential decisions.
R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 6-61: developers, integrators, and deployers of high-risk AI systems would owe risk-management and anti-discrimination duties.

Text

Consequential decision means any decision or judgment that has a legal, material or similarly significant effect on a consumer with respect to ... The provision or denial, or terms and conditions, of: (A) Financial lending or credit services; (B) Housing or lodging ... (C) Insurance; or (D) Legal services. ... High-risk artificial intelligence system means any artificial intelligence system that, when deployed, makes, or is a substantial factor in making, a consequential decision.

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What already applies in Rhode Island

The bill sits alongside rules courts and regulators have already issued, and decisions courts have already handed down, in the same jurisdiction — from the regulation tracker and the court-decisions corpus.

Rules and guidance in force

In re Amendments to Article V, Rule 1.1 of the Supreme Court Rules (Professional Conduct) and Adoption of Interim Generative AI GuidelinesRI Supreme Court
By order of 17 June 2026 the Rhode Island Supreme Court amended Article V, Rule 1.1 Comment [6] so that competence expressly includes keeping abreast of the benefits and risks of developing technology, and adopted advisory interim generative-AI guidelines for Rhode Island lawyers and for judicial officers. The guidelines do not carry the force of law.

Decisions on the record

Donaghy v. Zoning Bd. of Review of the Town of North KingstownRhode Island Superior Court · 2026-03-12
Rhode Island Superior Court on 2026-03-12 found counsel's appellate brief contained two citation defects, including Smithfield v. Fanning and Duffy v. Milder, involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations. The court remanded the zoning appeal to the board for a continued public hearing and cautioned counsel about likely AI-generated citations.

Legislature page: webserver.rilegislature.gov
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: archived NCSL 2025 AI legislation table
Notes: Official bill text page supplied introduction/referral but no separate status page was retrievable in this pass.

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