1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoring Statutory Rights and Interests of the States Act of 2017 . 2. Findings and intent (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Chapter 1 of title 9, United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Arbitration Act ), represented an exercise of legislative power that required courts to recognize private voluntary agreements to arbitrate commercial disputes at a time when the courts were refusing to do so on grounds that arbitration represented a usurpation of the authority of the courts to resolve legal disputes. (2) The Federal Arbitration Act did not, and should not have been interpreted to, supplant or nullify the legislatively created rights and remedies which Congress, exercising its power under article I of the Constitution of the United States, has granted to the people of the United States for resolving disputes in State and Federal courts. (3) Recent court decisions, including AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011) and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, 133 S.Ct. 2304 (June 20, 2013), have interpreted the Federal Arbitration Act to broadly preempt rights and remedies established under substantive State and Federal law. As a result, these decisions have enabled business entities to avoid or nullify legal duties created by congressional enactment, resulting in millions of people in the United States being unable to vindicate their rights in State and Federal courts. (4) States have a compelling interest in enacting rights and remedies to protect the welfare of their citizens, and the Federal Arbitration Act should not be, and should not have been, interpreted to preempt State legislation that enacted rights and remedies to protect the welfare of their citizens. (b) Intent of Congress In enacting this Act, it is the intent of Congress— (1) to restate and reinstitute the primacy of congressional and State legislative bodies as the creators of the rights and remedies available to all the people of the United States