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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 7257"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7257 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Animals", "Foster"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chippendale"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-23"
+last_action: "2020-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8c66d0e-a939-4f15-a15d-8e52668d978e"
+source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
+source_hash: "280c3fe6f8ad957a471432fa546c1f03381ce1807c9eb0cf138d860e4195d37f"
+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 7257 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7257** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/HouseText20/H7257.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chippendale — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-23** 01/23/2020 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-14** 02/14/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/27/2020)
+- **2020-02-27** 02/27/2020 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
+- **2020-06-09** 06/09/2020 Scheduled for consideration (06/11/2020)
+- **2020-06-11** 06/11/2020 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/f8c66d0e-a939-4f15-a15d-8e52668d978e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+