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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS"
+description: "Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 180"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 180 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Britto", "DiMario", "Euer", "Lauria", "McKenney", "Murray", "Sosnowski", "Tikoian", "Valverde"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-07"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a096322f-2120-479e-bbaf-f56c116ff561"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "36744d40266d043140997d5933f10b5936e37522a34d67efafa842d1dea51ef3"
+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 180 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
+
+Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **180 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0180A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **66–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Britto — primary (person)
+- DiMario — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Lauria — primary (person)
+- McKenney — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Sosnowski — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Valverde — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-07** 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2025)
+- **2025-03-19** 03/19/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2025)
+- **2025-06-02** 06/02/2025 Proposed Substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-06-04** 06/04/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
+- **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 in concurrence `passage`
+- **2025-06-18** 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-26** 06/26/2025 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/a096322f-2120-479e-bbaf-f56c116ff561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
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