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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 341"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 341 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Animals"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "Miller", "Pearson", "Ruggerio", "Sosnowski"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-16"
+last_action: "2017-07-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23cdb8f1-2c91-4997-8e7c-4e799519a763"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "31b5dfe0d66ce8cfca5f3bc62a3d25a2096bdd77e36df32e7caa58ce56471f80"
+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 341 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **341 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0341A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ANIMAL CARE — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Pearson — primary (person)
+- Ruggerio — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-16** 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee, introduction`
+- **2017-02-23** 02/23/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/28/2017)
+- **2017-02-28** 02/28/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
+- **2017-05-23** 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-05-30** 05/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/01/2017)
+- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
+- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2017)
+- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2017)
+- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23cdb8f1-2c91-4997-8e7c-4e799519a763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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