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DEFENDERS OF ANIMALS
Legislation to date for 2008
Pro animal bills introduced to date for 2008 in Rhode Island.We will need support from you to get these bills passed in the Senate and the House. Please let us know that you would be willing to send out emails, make a couple of calls, write letters and be at the hearings when they are scheduled. Defenders of Animals is supporting the following bills:
S-2030 By Tassoni, Maselli, Doyle, McBurney This Act would provide for mandatory imprisonment for convictions related to animal fighting.
http:www.rilin.state.ri.us//BillText08/SenateText08/S2030.pdf
S-2025 BY Tassoni, Maselli, Goodwin, Doyle, McBurney This Act would require training for new law enforcement officers to include techniques to aid investigating officers to become aware of incidents of crimes of domestic violence and other abuse crimes and how to react and investigate them. Those crimes would include child abuse, elder abuse, and cruelty to animals.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us//BillText08/SenateText08/S2025.pdf
S- 2019 BY Tassoni, Maselli, Goodwin, Doyle, McBurney This Act would require a court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals. This Act would also allow an agent of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or a Municipal animal control officer to petition the district or superior court to have any animal confiscated and forfeited that is possessed by a person found guilty of animal abuse.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us//BillText08/SenateText08/S2019.pdf
S-2008 BY Tassoni, McBurney, Doyle This Act would increase the various penalties related to animal cruelty.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us//BillText08/SenateText08/S2008.pdf
Senate Bill No.2043
BY Tassoni, Doyle, McBurney, Felag
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- REGULATION OF VICIOUS DOGS
(add the director of the defenders of animals or his or her designee to the hearing panel which decides whether a dog should be declared vicious)
{LC71/1}
01/10/2008 Introduced, referred to Senate Constitutional and Regulatory Issues
Senate Bill No.2096
BY Tassoni, Sosnowski, Fogarty P, Issa
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS
(provide guidelines and penalties for any person that keeps a dog outside tethered, penned, caged, fenced or otherwise confined without adequate shelter from the elements)
{LC745/1}
01/15/2008 Introduced, referred to Senate Constitutional and Regulatory Issues
Senate Bill No.2097
BY Tassoni, Ciccone, Jabour, Maselli
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY - PERMIT PROGRAM FOR CATS
(provide that when a cat or kitten is offered for sale or adoption, the person so doing, either has to spay or neuter the cat or kitten prior to the adoption or sale or provide a spay or neuter prepaid certificate)
{LC538/1}
01/15/2008 Introduced, referred to Senate Constitutional and Regulatory Issues
Senate Bill No.2101
BY Tassoni, Issa, Perry, McBurney
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- DOGS
(prohibit any person from keeping a dog tethered/penned/caged/fenced/confined outside for 30 minutes when the temperature is beyond the weather safety scale without access to an outdoor housing facility)
{LC539/1}
01/22/2008 Introduced, referred to Senate Constitutional and Regulatory Issues
House Bill No.7169
BY Lima, Baldelli-Hunt
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
(require a court to issue animal protective orders against persons found guilty of abusing animals)
{LC757/1}
01/22/2008 Introduced, referred to House H.E.W.
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