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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $4,500,000 IN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE ACQUISTION, CONSTRUCTION, BUILDING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW FIRE STATION IN THE TOWN (Authorizes the town of Smithfield to issue not more than $4,500,000 bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the acquisition, construction, building, furnishing and equipping of a new fire station in the town.)"
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $4,500,000 IN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE ACQUISTION, CONSTRUCTION, BUILDING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW FIRE STATION IN THE TOWN (Authorizes the town of Smithfield to issue not more than $4,500,000 bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the acquisition, construction, building, furnishing and equipping of a new fire station in the town.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 2991"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2991 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bonds", "Smithfield"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archambault"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-06-20"
last_action: "2018-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75cf913a-5051-49fc-9e8d-9b548a125689"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "e44dc35d62c7df20f0aacc834be7b5a1760d6ba455e400143e018f8362538669"
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 2991 (2018) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TO ISSUE NOT TO EXCEED $4,500,000 IN GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, NOTES AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS TO FINANCE THE ACQUISTION, CONSTRUCTION, BUILDING, FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A NEW FIRE STATION IN THE TOWN (Authorizes the town of Smithfield to issue not more than $4,500,000 bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness to finance the acquisition, construction, building, furnishing and equipping of a new fire station in the town.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2991** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText18/SenateText18/S2991.pdf)
## Votes
- Passage — **360** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **680** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Archambault — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Introduced, referred to Senate Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** 06/20/2018 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/21/2018)
- **2018-06-21** 06/21/2018 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/22/2018)
- **2018-06-22** 06/22/2018 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2018-06-27** 06/27/2018 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-07-05** 07/05/2018 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/75cf913a-5051-49fc-9e8d-9b548a125689`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).