Virginia House Bill 1894 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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.

Dog previously found dangerous; owner's failure to comply, disposition of dog.

Del. Michael Webert [R]

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

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]

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

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	6540	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1894
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1894+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0101V0001+HB1894
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0101V0009+HB1894