Virginia House Bill 1279 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-05 - Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Animal shelters; confinement and disposition of animals. Increases from five to 10 the number of days an animal confined by a public or private animal shelter or releasing agency shall be kept prior to disposal of the animal unless sooner claimed by the rightful owner. The bill also increases from five to 10 the number of additional days such animal shall be held if the owner or custodian of the shelter determines that the animal has a collar, tag, license, tattoo, or other form of identification.

Animal shelters; confinement and disposition of animals.

Del. Israel O'Quinn [R]

2020-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-05	House	Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
2020-01-15	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101926D

HB1279 (Carry Over) 2020-02-05 - Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	6546	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1279
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1279+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0101V0018+HB1279