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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS"
+description: "Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 559"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 559 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Bissaillon", "Burke", "Ciccone", "Dimitri", "Murray", "Patalano", "Tikoian", "Urso", "Vargas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d37a0c26-ed54-4afd-a7e2-eb47b9f9f22a"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "4594c17b0555e5fb7e53a9e047802a7e9394a5e526ca4afadab54d6b719aca6f"
+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 559 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
+
+Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **559 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0559A.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **73–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Bissaillon — primary (person)
+- Burke — primary (person)
+- Ciccone — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Murray — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+- Vargas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/10/2025)
+- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2025)
+- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** 05/27/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/29/2025) `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) `passage`
+- **2025-06-14** 06/14/2025 Referred to House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **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/d37a0c26-ed54-4afd-a7e2-eb47b9f9f22a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+