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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS"
+description: "Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and includes them as agents authorized to enforce the provisions of this law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 2151"
+citation: "Rhode Island SB 2151 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Appollonio", "Bell", "Dimitri", "Euer", "Gu", "LaMountain", "Patalano", "Thompson", "Tikoian", "Urso"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-16"
+last_action: "2026-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d7f6b02-e07c-407a-a55d-d0aa3840c6e8"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "8c8f274cae68cdedda316f69c18365d78ca7793270ce3e2e5d418b6ce41f6faa"
+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 2151 (2026) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
+
+Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and includes them as agents authorized to enforce the provisions of this law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **2151** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText26/SenateText26/S2151.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- IN CONCURRENCE — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Appollonio — primary (person)
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Dimitri — primary (person)
+- Euer — primary (person)
+- Gu — primary (person)
+- LaMountain — primary (person)
+- Patalano — primary (person)
+- Thompson — primary (person)
+- Tikoian — primary (person)
+- Urso — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-16** 01/16/2026 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-10** 04/10/2026 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/14/2026)
+- **2026-04-14** 04/14/2026 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2026-05-19** 05/19/2026 Scheduled for consideration (05/21/2026)
+- **2026-05-21** 05/21/2026 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-05-22** 05/22/2026 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/28/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-05-28** 05/28/2026 Senate read and passed `passage`
+- **2026-06-02** 06/02/2026 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/04/2026) `reading-3`
+- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 House passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2026-06-04** 06/04/2026 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-06-10** 06/10/2026 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/5d7f6b02-e07c-407a-a55d-d0aa3840c6e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+