---
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).