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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2246"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2246 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals", "Foster"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rogers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-04"
last_action: "2020-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/644c699f-87e0-427f-a362-12a69028da6f"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "08ffa626fe863561bf4f1e94f174efea08fe3724f6409305fac63aed0d218c1f"
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 2246 (2020) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOG ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES -- FOSTER (Authorizes the Foster town council to enact ordinances permitting the dog officer in the town to issue citations for the violation of dog ordinances.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText20/SenateText20/S2246.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **720** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rogers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-04** 02/04/2020 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-29** 05/29/2020 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/02/2020)
- **2020-06-02** 06/02/2020 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-15** 06/15/2020 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/17/2020)
- **2020-06-17** 06/17/2020 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/18/2020)
- **2020-06-18** 06/18/2020 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2020-06-19** 06/19/2020 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-27** 06/27/2020 Effective without Governor's signature `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/644c699f-87e0-427f-a362-12a69028da6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).