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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS--SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN (Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS--SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN (Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 7860"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7860 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Lincoln", "Motor Vehicles", "Smithfield", "Traffic Offenses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Costantino", "Hawkins"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-02-26"
+last_action: "2020-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0bb81b9-839a-4a4e-9644-53c063169211"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "4ca97beeccc383df285aa2a2038772b5648774d7ce5e05f0e5c4a5a8a1329a30"
+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 HB 7860 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITS--SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN (Prohibits commercial motor trucks, with a gross weight rating of twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) or more, from traveling on Limerock Road, in Smithfield and Lincoln.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7860** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7860.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Costantino — primary (person)
+- Hawkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-26** 02/26/2020 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** 02/28/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2020)
+- **2020-03-05** 03/05/2020 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2020-06-12** 06/12/2020 Scheduled for consideration (06/15/2020)
+- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/17/2020)
+- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/18/2020)
+- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-26** 06/26/2020 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/c0bb81b9-839a-4a4e-9644-53c063169211`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+