---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD (Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD (Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 318"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 318 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Death", "Health & Safety", "Motor Vehicles", "Roads"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault", "Burke", "Coyne", "Euer", "F Lombardi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a15d500-8262-4cd7-9b59-04c43c5f07a6"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "1a80a1fcc735e0fa4dda8eaf38557f72f8d1066c5fd19cd85310a82a776194d3"
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 318 (2021) — AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- PASSING, USE OF LANES, AND RULES OF THE ROAD (Provides for specific fines and sanctions to operators of motor vehicles who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable road user causing injury, serious injury, or death to the vulnerable road user.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **318 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText21/SenateText21/S0318A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **68–3** (pass) · upper
- AND RULES OF THE ROAD — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archambault — primary (person)
- Burke — primary (person)
- Coyne — primary (person)
- Euer — primary (person)
- F Lombardi — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-18** 02/18/2021 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** 04/02/2021 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/08/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 04/08/2021 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2021-04-23** 04/23/2021 Scheduled for consideration (04/29/2021)
- **2021-04-28** 04/28/2021 Proposed Substitute
- **2021-04-29** 04/29/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-30** 04/30/2021 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/04/2021)
- **2021-05-04** 05/04/2021 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2021-05-05** 05/05/2021 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-21** 05/21/2021 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2021)
- **2021-05-27** 05/27/2021 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-28** 05/28/2021 Placed on House Calendar (06/01/2021)
- **2021-06-01** 06/01/2021 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2021-06-17** 06/17/2021 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-25** 06/25/2021 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/3a15d500-8262-4cd7-9b59-04c43c5f07a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).