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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Owners of animals in RISPCA custody to pay for animal's care or animal may be forfeited.)"
+description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Owners of animals in RISPCA custody to pay for animal's care or animal may be forfeited.)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 8303"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 8303 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Baginski", "Corvese", "Craven", "Hull", "McEntee", "Noret", "O'Brien", "Phillips", "Slater", "Solomon"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-06-01"
+last_action: "2022-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17c5d6b6-be1b-40c0-9c0c-f586d6cf5f56"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "d026f348456f23a2d74fa1046fc4c79e455bd663a15750fef0fe1e172d6613c3"
+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 8303 (2022) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Owners of animals in RISPCA custody to pay for animal's care or animal may be forfeited.)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **8303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText22/HouseText22/H8303.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **61–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Baginski — primary (person)
+- Corvese — primary (person)
+- Craven — primary (person)
+- Hull — primary (person)
+- McEntee — primary (person)
+- Noret — primary (person)
+- O'Brien — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Slater — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-06-01** 06/01/2022 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-07** 06/07/2022 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/09/2022)
+- **2022-06-09** 06/09/2022 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2022-06-20** 06/20/2022 Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2022)
+- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-22** 06/22/2022 Placed on House Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/23/2022) `reading-3`
+- **2022-06-23** 06/23/2022 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2022-06-24** 06/24/2022 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-06-30** 06/30/2022 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/17c5d6b6-be1b-40c0-9c0c-f586d6cf5f56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+