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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS"
+description: "Permits Smithfield to enact ordinances that would allow the animal control officer to issue citations which could be paid my mail and to prescribe penalties for violations of the town's ordinances regulating dogs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 7657"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7657 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Costantino", "Rea"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-02-15"
+last_action: "2024-05-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21bd68d6-276c-41f7-bc65-73e65b992023"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "96da507fde080b264d181147102ae17f246a99f74d774ccb80343a7bfcc870a4"
+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 7657 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS
+
+Permits Smithfield to enact ordinances that would allow the animal control officer to issue citations which could be paid my mail and to prescribe penalties for violations of the town's ordinances regulating dogs.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7657** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7657.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Costantino — primary (person)
+- Rea — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-15** 02/15/2024 Introduced, referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2024)
+- **2024-03-07** 03/07/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Scheduled for consideration (03/19/2024)
+- **2024-03-19** 03/19/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 Placed on House Calendar (03/28/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-28** 03/28/2024 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** 04/03/2024 Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-05** 04/05/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/10/2024)
+- **2024-04-10** 04/10/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (04/23/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-23** 04/23/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 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/21bd68d6-276c-41f7-bc65-73e65b992023`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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