Virginia House Bill 79 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Dog boarding establishments; group play requirements; notice; penalties. Requires an employee of a dog boarding establishment to be present at all times that a dog is able to have physical contact with another dog. The bill limits the number of dogs that may have physical contact at any given time based on certain weight classifications. Failure to adequately supervise dogs in group play is established as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also requires notice of risk of group play for dogs to be given to consumers. Failure to provide notice of the risk of group play is established as a Class 3 misdemeanor.

Dog boarding establishments; group play requirements, penalty.

Del. David Yancey [R]

Del. Jason Miyares [R]

2018-02-07 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-24 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (13-Y 9-N) (Y: 13 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-02-07	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N)
2018-02-06	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2018-02-01	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-02-01	House	Motion to refer to committee agreed to
2018-01-31	House	Passed by for the day
2018-01-30	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB79H1
2018-01-30	House	Committee substitute agreed to 18105704D-H1
2018-01-30	House	Read second time
2018-01-29	House	Passed by for the day
2018-01-26	House	Read first time
2018-01-24	House	Committee substitute printed 18105704D-H1
2018-01-24	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
2018-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
2018-01-15	House	Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #1
2017-12-06	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2017-12-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100596D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	403.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6506	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6518	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6519.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB79
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB79+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB79H1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0101V0009+HB0079
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H01V0004+HB0079
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0801V0158+HB0079