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Bill AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9. us/states/ri Rhode Island General Assembly 2025 SB 559 Rhode Island SB 559 (2025)
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Rhode Island SB 559 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Increases imprisonment penalties and adds mandatory community service for violations of § 4-1-9.

Version chain

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

  1. 559 SUB A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 360 (pass) · upper
  • Passage — 340 (pass) · upper
  • PASSAGE — 730 (pass) · upper
  • Passage — 350 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Appollonio — primary (person)
  • Bissaillon — primary (person)
  • Burke — primary (person)
  • Ciccone — primary (person)
  • Dimitri — primary (person)
  • Murray — primary (person)
  • Patalano — primary (person)
  • Tikoian — primary (person)
  • Urso — primary (person)
  • Vargas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-26 02/26/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary introduction, referral-committee
  • 2025-04-04 04/04/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (04/10/2025)
  • 2025-04-10 04/10/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study committee-failure
  • 2025-05-23 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/27/2025)
  • 2025-05-27 05/27/2025 Committee recommends passage committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-27 05/27/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (05/29/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-05-29 05/29/2025 Senate passed as amended (floor amendment) passage
  • 2025-06-14 06/14/2025 Referred to House Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-06-14 06/14/2025 Scheduled for consideration (06/16/2025)
  • 2025-06-14 06/14/2025 Proposed Substitute substitution
  • 2025-06-16 06/16/2025 Committee recommends passage of Sub A committee-passage-favorable
  • 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 passage
  • 2025-06-18 06/18/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/20/2025) reading-3
  • 2025-06-20 06/20/2025 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence passage
  • 2025-06-23 06/23/2025 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-06-27 06/27/2025 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d37a0c26-ed54-4afd-a7e2-eb47b9f9f22a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).