A new statute - the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act - has been proposed for enactment by the legislatures of the 50 states of the United States. The statute will apply to arbitrations held in each state that enacts the new law. It will apply to the arbitration of both international and domestic disputes. As a state statute, however, the new law will be effective only to the extent it is not inconsistent with US federal law, namely the Federal Arbitration Act and judicial decisions interpreting and applying that act.
The Revised Uniform Arbitration Act was approved and recommended for enactment by the highly influential National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2000. To date the revised act has been adopted by only two states, Hawaii and New Mexico. However, it has been introduced for consideration in the legislatures of six other states and is likely eventually to be widely adopted. The law is intended to supersede the Uniform Arbitration Act, which was
