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Bill	AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FURBEARING ANIMALS	Requires the department of environmental management to promulgate by rule, a list of "furbearers" for purposes of the furbearing animals chapter of the general laws.	us/states/ri	Rhode Island General Assembly	2024	HB 7562	Rhode Island HB 7562 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bennett Caldwell Chippendale Costantino Cotter Craven Kazarian Marszalkowski Noret Spears	1	19	2	2024-02-09	2024-06-17	openstates	ocd-bill/ca341b29-181e-4481-8eef-8fed9783b5db	https://status.rilegislature.gov/	85a145ff50458ba65cddaaa3993e732371f52b29d2c44f4f8884e459b635cd8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ri

Rhode Island HB 7562 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- FURBEARING ANIMALS

Requires the department of environmental management to promulgate by rule, a list of "furbearers" for purposes of the furbearing animals chapter of the general laws.

Version chain

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

1. 7562 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• IN CONCURRENCE — 64–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bennett — primary (person)
• Caldwell — primary (person)
• Chippendale — primary (person)
• Costantino — primary (person)
• Cotter — primary (person)
• Craven — primary (person)
• Kazarian — primary (person)
• Marszalkowski — primary (person)
• Noret — primary (person)
• Spears — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-09 02/09/2024 Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 02/23/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
• 2024-02-23 02/23/2024 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/29/2024)
• 2024-03-29 03/29/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/04/2024)
• 2024-04-04 04/04/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
• 2024-05-03 05/03/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/09/2024)
• 2024-05-09 05/09/2024 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-10 05/10/2024 Placed on House Calendar (05/14/2024) reading-3
• 2024-05-14 05/14/2024 House read and passed passage
• 2024-05-17 05/17/2024 Referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture referral-committee
• 2024-05-24 05/24/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2024)
• 2024-05-28 05/28/2024 Proposed Substitute substitution
• 2024-05-29 05/29/2024 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-31 05/31/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/06/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-06 06/06/2024 Senate passed Sub A passage
• 2024-06-07 06/07/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/10/2024) reading-3
• 2024-06-10 06/10/2024 House passed Sub A in concurrence passage
• 2024-06-12 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-17 06/17/2024 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca341b29-181e-4481-8eef-8fed9783b5db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).