republic-os/legislation/us/states/ri/2017/sb-563.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Allows a pound or animal shelter to put an animal up for adoption after ten (10) days if it has a tag or after five (5) days if it has no tag.)	AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Allows a pound or animal shelter to put an animal up for adoption after ten (10) days if it has a tag or after five (5) days if it has no tag.)	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2017	SB 563	Rhode Island SB 563 (2017)	bill	Animals Criminal Offense Adoption	enacted	Ciccone Goodwin Lombardi Lombardo Ruggerio	1	19	2	2017-03-15	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/7542b111-5161-4d1d-8728-4511451b9121	http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/	d4d2dbf9ca6a3acc584d05fb97c96c37fd3b3419ad0ee129151d76d279e65510	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island SB 563 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Allows a pound or animal shelter to put an animal up for adoption after ten (10) days if it has a tag or after five (5) days if it has no tag.)

Version chain

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

1. 563 SUB A as amended (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 35–2 (pass) · legislature
• In Concurrence — 29–4 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ciccone — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Lombardi — primary (person)
• Lombardo — primary (person)
• Ruggerio — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-15 03/15/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture referral-committee, introduction
• 2017-04-07 04/07/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/12/2017)
• 2017-04-12 04/12/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
• 2017-04-21 04/21/2017 Scheduled for consideration (04/26/2017)
• 2017-04-26 04/26/2017 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-27 04/27/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/03/2017)
• 2017-05-03 05/03/2017 Senate read and passed passage
• 2017-05-04 05/04/2017 Referred to House H.E.W. referral-committee
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Scheduled for consideration
• 2017-06-27 06/27/2017 Meeting postponed (06/27/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/29/2017)
• 2017-06-29 06/29/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A as amended committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-30 06/30/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/30/2017)
• 2017-09-15 09/15/2017 Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 House passed Sub A as amended passage
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017)
• 2017-09-19 09/19/2017 Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence passage
• 2017-09-25 09/25/2017 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-09-28 09/28/2017 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7542b111-5161-4d1d-8728-4511451b9121. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).