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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS"
+description: "Increases the imprisonment penalty for animal fighting from 2 to 5 yrs for a subsequent conviction under § 4-1-9 and would also require mandatory community service"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 6089"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 6089 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alzate", "Baginski", "Biah", "Casimiro", "Dawson", "Kazarian", "O'Brien", "Slater", "Solomon", "Stewart"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-03-14"
+last_action: "2025-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c80085e0-69ae-415d-ae73-bd2fe468ded2"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "fc3fbf309ecbfc262016c9b468634ab3188a13451d0a4be8e1eee62059b5072a"
+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 6089 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
+
+Increases the imprisonment penalty for animal fighting from 2 to 5 yrs for a subsequent conviction under § 4-1-9 and would also require mandatory community service
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **6089 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H6089A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alzate — primary (person)
+- Baginski — primary (person)
+- Biah — primary (person)
+- Casimiro — primary (person)
+- Dawson — primary (person)
+- Kazarian — primary (person)
+- O'Brien — primary (person)
+- Slater — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** 03/21/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/25/2025)
+- **2025-03-25** 03/25/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2025)
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-16** 06/16/2025 Placed on House Calendar (06/18/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 House passed Sub A `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-20** 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-23** 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-27** 06/27/2025 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/c80085e0-69ae-415d-ae73-bd2fe468ded2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+