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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS"
description: "Permits Smithfield to enact ordinances that would allow the animal control officer to issue citations which could be paid my mail and to prescribe penalties for violations of the town's ordinances regulating dogs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2539"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 2539 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tikoian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-01"
last_action: "2024-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a6effbe-952b-4491-8782-672c54aa18d8"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "fe72b8460ba3653451a5f59781560db79bc5db4a5e2d4a724557d2378b7b7f14"
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 2539 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS
Permits Smithfield to enact ordinances that would allow the animal control officer to issue citations which could be paid my mail and to prescribe penalties for violations of the town's ordinances regulating dogs.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **2539** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/SenateText24/S2539.pdf)
## Votes
- IN CONCURRENCE — **69–0** (pass) · upper
- HUSBANDRY -- DOGS — **36–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tikoian — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-08** 03/08/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/13/2024)
- **2024-03-13** 03/13/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-15** 03/15/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (03/21/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** 03/21/2024 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2024-03-22** 03/22/2024 Referred to House Municipal Government & Housing `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-05** 04/05/2024 Scheduled for consideration (04/11/2024)
- **2024-04-11** 04/11/2024 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-19** 04/19/2024 Placed on House Calendar (04/24/2024) `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2024-04-24** 04/24/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-02** 05/02/2024 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/6a6effbe-952b-4491-8782-672c54aa18d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).