AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

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Overview Bill text 1 History 1 Sponsors 10

Allows animal control officers in the cities and towns to lawfully take charge of and provide adequate care to any animal found abandoned or neglected or hazardously accumulated and would increase penalties for malicious injury to or killing of animals.

Chamber: House
Introduced: Jun 11, 2025
Last action: Jun 11, 2025 — 06/11/2025 Introduced, referred to House Judiciary
Sponsor: David Morales D
Session: 2025
Momentum: 44 · Moderate

PASSAGE PROBABILITY

1% Unlikely

Why this number

Stage base In Committee — base rate 11%, measured from RI's completed sessions
Momentum -1 44/100 from the pace of recorded action
Time since last action -22 486 days quiet
Cosponsors +10 9 signed on
Sponsor influence +1 60/100

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