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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO PUBLIC SAFETY DOGS AND HORSES (Provides special protection to public safety canines and horses that are intentionally or maliciously subjected to cruelty, injuries, or death, by increasing the potential criminal and civil penalties for the offenders.) AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO PUBLIC SAFETY DOGS AND HORSES (Provides special protection to public safety canines and horses that are intentionally or maliciously subjected to cruelty, injuries, or death, by increasing the potential criminal and civil penalties for the offenders.) us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2019 SB 779 Rhode Island SB 779 (2019)
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Rhode Island SB 779 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO PUBLIC SAFETY DOGS AND HORSES (Provides special protection to public safety canines and horses that are intentionally or maliciously subjected to cruelty, injuries, or death, by increasing the potential criminal and civil penalties for the offenders.)

Version chain

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

  1. 779 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • IN CONCURRENCE — 680 (pass) · upper
  • Passage — 371 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Goodwin — primary (person)
  • McCaffrey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-04-04 04/04/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary introduction, referral-committee
  • 2019-04-26 04/26/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/02/2019)
  • 2019-05-02 05/02/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
  • 2019-05-31 05/31/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/06/2019)
  • 2019-06-06 06/06/2019 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-06-11 06/11/2019 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/13/2019)
  • 2019-06-13 06/13/2019 Senate read and passed passage
  • 2019-06-26 06/26/2019 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
  • 2019-06-28 06/28/2019 House passed in concurrence passage
  • 2019-07-03 07/03/2019 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-07-08 07/08/2019 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bf06ad4-385c-4a4f-978b-4fceb8ecc43e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).