| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB62 | Pass | Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB93 | Pass | Local animal cruelty registries. Allows any locality to establish an animal cruelty registry for public access on the website of such locality or its local police department. The bill provides that such registry may include the names and relevant inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 758 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB320 | Pass | Pesticide control exemptions; herbicide applications by unpaid volunteers. Exempts from the provisions of state pesticide laws and regulations any unpaid volunteer who uses any nonrestricted herbicide with the express authorization of a local politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 720 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB580 | Pass | Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities, consisting of legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB411 | Pass | Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities; report. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to convene a Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities, consisting of legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 675 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1354 | Pass | Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawfu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 748 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB11 | Pass | Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 489 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB330 | Pass | Financing of a dog or cat. Prohibits the financing of a dog or cat unless such financing complies with the provisions of state and federal law related to consumer credit. Financing of a dog or cat. Prohibits the financing of a dog or cat unless such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 382 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1460 | Pass | Virginia Verified Meat certification. Prohibits any person from labeling any product as Virginia Verified Meat if it does not meet the definition of that term in the bill and allows any person not employed by the Department of Agriculture and Consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 420 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1531 | Pass | Cruelty to elephants; pain-inflicting training tools prohibited; actions for attachment; civil penalty. Prohibits using devices such as a bullhook, axe handle, or block and tackle or engaging in certain practices in order to discipline, train, or con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0333) |
| VA | HB223 | Pass | Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. Provides that any person convicted of felony cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of companion or equine animals for life and any person convicted of m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179) |
| VA | HB299 | Pass | License tax; retired police or military dogs; exemption. Allows a locality by ordinance to exempt any dog that served as a police or law-enforcement dog or military working dog from the license tax on the ownership of dogs. Such ordinance must includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187) |
| VA | SB412 | Pass | Rabies clinics; animal vaccination and microchip services. Allows rabies clinics approved by local health departments and governing bodies to offer microchipping and additional animal health vaccines at the discretion of the licensed veterinarian or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0241) |
| VA | HB1399 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Potato Board; membership. Reduces from seven to five the number of members that serve on the Potato Board. The bill provides that the terms of persons serving as members of the Potato Board prior to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| VA | HB804 | Pass | Dangerous dog; extending the time for adjudication. Requires the court, unless good cause is determined by the court, to hold the evidentiary hearing pursuant to the dangerous dog summons within 30 days or as soon as practicable from the issuance of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145) |
| VA | HB892 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146) |
| VA | HB1377 | Pass | Soybean Board; assessment from sale of soybeans. Changes the amount of the assessment for research, education, publicity, and the promotion of the sale and use of soybeans, currently at $0.02 per bushel, to a rate of one half of one percent of the ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0149) |
| VA | HB1381 | Pass | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132) |
| VA | HB759 | Pass | Food inspections; private homes; pickles and acidified vegetables; gross sales. Increases from $3,000 to $9,000 the gross sales annual revenue cap for sales of pickles and other acidified vegetables that have an equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0131) |
| VA | SB616 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| VA | HB297 | Intro
25% | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Planning District 4. Adds Planning District 4 (New River Valley Region) to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB221 | Intro
25% | Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan; regulations. Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to promulgate regulations establishing minimum requirements for a Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan and establish a model plan for localities to redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB681 | Intro
25% | Home-produced or small farm-produced food products. Allows the sale of food products made from any fruit, grain, herbs, honey, meat, milk, mushrooms, nuts, poultry, seafood, or vegetables by a farm employing 10 or fewer people or by a private home, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB773 | Intro
25% | Marijuana; criminal penalties. Modifies several criminal penalties related to marijuana, imposes limits on dissemination of criminal history record information related to certain marijuana offenses, and provides a petition process for any person who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1155 | Intro
25% | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; electric vehicle battery suppliers; certification; penalty. Requires each supplier of electric vehicle batteries operating in the Commonwealth to certify under penalty of perjury to the Commissioner of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1382 | Intro
25% | Meat; misbranding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB704 | Engross
50% | Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB9 | Intro
25% | Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1485 | Intro
25% | Industrial hemp; maximum THC concentration. Increases from 0.6 percent to one percent, in the definition of industrial hemp, the maximum allowable concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the plant Cannabis sativa. The bill allows the Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 10-N) |
| VA | HB206 | Intro
25% | Pet shops; notice of deceased animals; report. Requires pet shops to annually submit a summary of records indicating any time a dog or cat in their possession dies or is euthanized to the State Veterinarian in a format prescribed by him.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB31 | Intro
25% | Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund established. Establishes the Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund to reimburse participating veterinarians for the surgical sterilizations they perform on eligible cats or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB266 | Intro
25% | Animal control officers; additional training. Increases the number of hours of required additional training in animal control and protection from 15 to 24 every three years for all animal control officers and deputy animal control officers employed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Failed to report (defeated) in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (6-Y 9-N) |
| VA | SB446 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
