VIRGINIA HOUSE OF DELEGATES
HB 1562 Dangerous and vicious dogs; authorizes animal control officer to apply to magistrate for summons.
Robert D. Orrock, Sr.
Summary as introduced:
Control of dangerous and vicious dogs; penalties. Authorizes an animal control officer or law-enforcement officer to apply to a magistrate for a summons where the officer believes that the owner of a dangerous or vicious dog has willfully failed to comply with the law. The bill clarifies the distinctions between dangerous dogs and vicious dogs, requires the owner of either type of dog to provide basic care while confining the animal, and authorizes a court to order the owner to pay for the care of a dangerous or vicious dog while it is in state custody.
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01/04/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101195D pdf
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HB 1762 Hunting on Sunday.
David I. Ramadan
Summary as introduced:
Hunting on Sunday. Allows any person to hunt or kill wild animals on Sunday, on private lands in the Counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William. However, the hunting or killing of wild birds on Sunday in these localities would continue to be prohibited.
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01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100525D
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HB 1829 Using a GPS device to manage dogs in pursuit of foxes.
Charles D. Poindexter
Summary as introduced:
Using a GPS device to manage dogs in pursuit of foxes. Allows hunters to use a GPS (Global Positioning System) or other electronic tracking device to manage dogs that are hunting or pursuing a fox. Current law distinguishes actually following a dog from "managing" the dog, but it does not explain what managing might encompass. The bill contains technical amendments.
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01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101663D
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HB 1859 Rabies; local governing body to hold clinic at least once every three years.
Robert D. Orrock, Sr.
Summary as introduced:
Rabies clinics. Requires a local governing body to hold a rabies clinic at least once every three years. Currently, a clinic is to be held once a year if the local government finds that the number of resident veterinarians is inadequate to meet the need for rabies vaccination.
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01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100021D pdf
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HB 1863 Dangerous or vicious dogs; adoption of ordinances for control.
Roxann L. Robinson (by request)
Summary as introduced:
Adoption of ordinances for the control of dangerous or vicious dogs. Expands the list of statutes that a locality may use as the basis for parallel ordinances by adding § 3.2-6540, which deals with the control of dangerous or vicious dogs, to the list of available Code sections. A local ordinance that parallels § 3.2-6540 may be more stringent than that section.
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01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101508D pdf
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HB 1893 Virginia Adoptable & Transferable Companion Animal Registry; Veterinarian to establish website.
Kaye Kory
Summary as introduced:
Virginia Adoptable and Transferable Companion Animal Registry. Requires the State Veterinarian to establish and maintain a website where representatives of releasing agencies may post information on companion animals that are available for adoption by the public or transfer to other releasing agencies. The bill also provides that a governing body may require a pound that it maintains to participate in the Registry.
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01/08/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100105D pdf
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HB 1929 Deer kill permits.
Rick L. Morris
Summary as introduced:
Deer kill permits. Authorizes the chief law-enforcement officer of a city or town to report to the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries that deer are creating a traffic hazard in the jurisdiction. If after an investigation the Director finds that such a hazard exists, he may authorize responsible persons, or their representatives, to kill the deer.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103168D
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HB 1947 Deer or turkey; authorizes Board of Game & Inland Fisheries to create separate special licenses.
Tony O. Wilt
Summary as introduced:
Authority to create separate special hunting licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create separate special licenses for the hunting of deer or turkey. Under current law, the Board is authorized to create a separate special license for the hunting of bear.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101705D pdf
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HB 2036 Hunting with bow and arrow or crossbow.
Michael J. Webert
Summary as introduced:
Hunting with bow and arrow or crossbow. Allows persons who hunt with a bow and arrow or a crossbow to hunt wild birds or wild animals, including any nuisance species, on Sunday.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101437D
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HB 2037 Hunting nuisance species on Sunday.
Michael J. Webert
Summary as introduced:
Hunting nuisance species on Sunday. Allows the hunting or killing of nuisance species on Sunday.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101436D
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HB 2149 Freshwater fish; sale and purchase of those that are grown in aquaculture facility.
Mark L. Keam
Summary as introduced:
Sale of freshwater fish. Allows the sale and purchase of freshwater fish that are grown in an aquaculture facility, so long as the fish is of the same species as a fish found in Virginia waters. The person selling or offering for sale such fish is required to maintain documentation establishing the source of the fish and to provide signage or other notice to the consumer that the fish was propagated in an aquaculture facility.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103490D pdf
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HB 2184 Hunting and fishing; authorizes Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip licenses.
James E. Edmunds, II
Summary as introduced:
Trip hunting and fishing licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip hunting licenses to nonresidents and trip fishing licenses to residents and nonresidents for time periods and at costs determined by the Board. Current law allows nonresidents to purchase a three-day trip hunting license at a cost of $40 and a five-day trip fishing license at a cost of $10 and allows residents to purchase a five-day trip fishing license at a cost of $5.
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01/09/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13101314D pdf
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HB 2099 Shooting of muskrats and raccoons.
Tony O. Wilt
Summary as introduced:
Shooting of muskrats and raccoons. Allows a landowner to (i) shoot muskrats and raccoons upon his own land during the closed season without having to obtain a kill permit from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and (ii) trap beaver, muskrat, and raccoons upon his own land during the closed season.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103356D
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HB 2112 Hunting on Sunday.
L. Scott Lingamfelter
Summary as introduced:
Hunting on Sunday. Allows hunting on Sunday on state and federal military bases, installations, and facilities with the approval of the commanding officer of the base, installation, or facility.
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01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101438D
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HB 2184 Trip hunting and fishing licenses.
James E. Edmunds, II
Summary as introduced:
Trip hunting and fishing licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip hunting licenses to nonresidents and trip fishing licenses to residents and nonresidents for time periods and at costs determined by the Board. Current law allows nonresidents to purchase a three-day trip hunting license at a cost of $40 and a five-day trip fishing license at a cost of $10 and allows residents to purchase a five-day trip fishing license at a cost of $5.
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01/09/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13101314D pdf
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HB 2225 Hunting; allows any person to hunt on private lands on Sunday with permission of owner.
James W. Morefield
Summary as introduced:
Hunting on Sundays. Allows any person to hunt on private lands on Sunday, with the permission of the owner of the lands.
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01/11/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13103370D pdf
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HB 2242 Animal abuser registration; penalties.
Lacey E. Putney (by request)
Summary as introduced:
Animal abuser registration; penalties. Requires anyone 18 or older who has been convicted of a felony violation of an animal cruelty law to register with the office of the primary law-enforcement agency in the locality when he is present in Virginia for more than 10 consecutive days and to renew his registration annually for 15 years. The agency is required to collect and forward to the Attorney General the abuser's registration information and to provide certain information to all residences, schools, animal shelters, and businesses within one-half mile of the abuser's location. The bill requires the Attorney General to maintain a publicly accessible registry of the abusers who are required to register.
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01/14/13 House: Presented and ordered printed 13103005D pdf
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VIRGINIA SENATE
SB 803 Hunting nuisance species on Sunday.
Thomas A. Garrett
Summary as introduced:
Hunting nuisance species. Makes it lawful to hunt or kill nuisance species on Sunday. Among the species that could be hunted on Sunday are blackbirds, coyotes, crows, cowbirds, feral swine, grackles, English sparrows, starlings, and those species designated as nuisance species by regulations of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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12/20/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100717D
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SB 828 Dangerous and vicious dogs; authorizes animal control officer to apply to magistrate for summons.
Harry B. Blevins
Summary as introduced:
Control of dangerous and vicious dogs; penalties. Authorizes an animal control officer or law-enforcement officer to apply to a magistrate for a summons where the officer believes that the owner of a dangerous or vicious dog has willfully failed to comply with the law. The bill clarifies the distinctions between dangerous dogs and vicious dogs, requires the owner of either type of dog to provide basic care while confining the animal, and authorizes a court to order the owner to pay for the care of a dangerous or vicious dog while it is in state custody.
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12/28/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13100989D pdf
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SB 954 Drone; willfully impeding hunting, Class 3 misdemeanor.
Frank M. Ruff, Jr.
Summary as introduced:
Impeding hunting; drones; penalty. Provides that the use of a drone by a private person to monitor and photograph persons lawfully hunting on private property, when the drone is used by a private person without the permission of the landowner, constitutes impeding hunting, a Class 3 misdemeanor.
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01/07/13 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13102071D
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SB 1277 Wildlife exhibitor permit.
Richard H. Stuart
Summary as introduced:
Wildlife exhibitor permit. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish standard conditions for the possession and display of wildlife by elementary and secondary school teachers for educational purposes. The bill exempts such exhibits from the wildlife exhibitor permit application and fee so long as the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is notified of the display of wildlife and such display complies with the conditions established by the Board.
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01/14/13 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 13103043D pdf
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SB 1280 Fox and coyote enclosures; penalty.
David W. Marsden
Summary as introduced:
Fox and coyote enclosures; penalty.
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01/14/13 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 13104007D pdf
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