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Votes at a glance: House approves consumer protection and animal-welfare bills
Summary
On Feb. 27, 2025, the Rhode Island House unanimously passed two bills: HB5215 requiring gyms to stop automatic payments within 30 days after written cancellation, and HB5025 clarifying that trapping and releasing feral cats for spay/neuter is not abandonment. Both measures passed with unanimous recorded votes.
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Feb. 27 approved two bills in short form on the chamber calendar: House Bill 5215, a consumer-protection measure about gym membership cancellations, and House Bill 5025, an animal-welfare measure clarifying that trapping and releasing unowned feral cats for spay-or-neuter is not abandonment. Both measures passed with…
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