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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 SB 180 Rhode Island SB 180 (2025)
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Rhode Island SB 180 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Prohibits the declawing of cats by any surgical procedure to amputate or modify a portion of a cat's paw in order to remove the cat's claws. Does not apply to any procedure performed for a therapeutic purpose.

Version chain

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

  1. 180 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 360 (pass) · upper
  • IN CONCURRENCE — 667 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bell — primary (person)
  • Britto — primary (person)
  • DiMario — primary (person)
  • Euer — primary (person)
  • Lauria — primary (person)
  • McKenney — primary (person)
  • Murray — primary (person)
  • Sosnowski — primary (person)
  • Tikoian — primary (person)
  • Valverde — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-07 02/07/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-14 03/14/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/19/2025)
  • 2025-03-19 03/19/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2025-06-02 06/02/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/04/2025)
  • 2025-06-02 06/02/2025 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2025-06-04 06/04/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-06-05 06/05/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/10/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-10 06/10/2025 Senate passed Sub A passage
  • 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 in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-26 06/26/2025 Effective without Governor's signature became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a096322f-2120-479e-bbaf-f56c116ff561. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).