VA HB1894 | 2019 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 4 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 4 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Dog previously found dangerous; owner's failure to comply; disposition of dog. Directs a court to consider other options for disposition of a dangerous dog after its owner is found to have willfully failed to comply with certain requirements regarding the registration and keeping of the dangerous dog. The bill directs a court, after it has determined the owner's failure to comply, to order the dog disposed of by adoption or euthanasia, but only after the court has found that none of the following options for disposition of the dog is appropriate: (i) the allowance of as much as 30 days to comply with the law, an option existing under current law; (ii) the transfer of the dog to another owner; or (iii) the removal of the dog to another state not bordering Virginia, with a ban on its return. If a dog that has been ordered removed is later found in Virginia, the bill requires the court to order it euthanized immediately. The bill also provides that the new options be available to dangerous dogs that are subject on July 1, 2019, to euthanasia orders.
Title
Dog previously found dangerous; owner's failure to comply, disposition of dog.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2019-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 3-N) (Y: 4 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-01-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-05 | House | Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| 2019-01-21 | House | Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 3-N) |
| 2019-01-14 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 2-N) |
| 2019-01-09 | House | Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #1 |
| 2019-01-04 | House | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| 2019-01-04 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100911D |
