---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 341"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 341 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ciccone", "Miller", "Pearson", "Ruggerio", "Sosnowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23cdb8f1-2c91-4997-8e7c-4e799519a763"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "31b5dfe0d66ce8cfca5f3bc62a3d25a2096bdd77e36df32e7caa58ce56471f80"
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 341 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - ANIMAL CARE (Requires that municipal animal control officers be certified by the National Care & Control Association.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **341 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0341A.pdf)

## Votes

- ANIMAL CARE — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **36–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ciccone — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Pearson — primary (person)
- Ruggerio — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-16** 02/16/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-02-23** 02/23/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (02/28/2017)
- **2017-02-28** 02/28/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-19** 05/19/2017 Scheduled for consideration (05/23/2017)
- **2017-05-23** 05/23/2017 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-30** 05/30/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/01/2017)
- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-02** 06/02/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/07/2017)
- **2017-06-07** 06/07/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/21/2017)
- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-06-21** 06/21/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/28/2017)
- **2017-06-28** 06/28/2017 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 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/23cdb8f1-2c91-4997-8e7c-4e799519a763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).