Agriculture Animal Care And Food
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Agricultural best management practices; extends sunset date. [SB-297]
Agricultural best management practices tax credit; sunset date. Extends the sunset date of the individual and corporate agricultural best management practices tax credit from January 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030.
Sponsored by: Sen. Timmy French
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0233) on 03/28/2024
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Home-produced or small farm-produced food products; sale of products. [HB-681]
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, so long as (i) the sale is made directly to consumers and (ii) the product is labeled with the producer's name and address, the product's ingredients, and a disclosure statement indicating that the product is not subject to Virginia's food safety laws or regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Leftwich
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Animal testing facilities; DACR shall convene task force to identify potential deficiencies. [HB-580]
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 legislators and stakeholders, for the purpose of identifying potential deficiencies in publicly funded animal testing facilities in the Commonwealth and recommending methods and context for making certain information about such animal testing facilities publicly available. The bill requires the Task Force to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0693) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Broadband access in farmland and rural areas; information and reporting. [HB-382]
Broadband access in farmland and rural areas; information and reporting. Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to create and maintain, in consultation with the Commonwealth Broadband Chief Advisor, the Broadband Advisory Council, and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, an interactive tool or application to provide current information on connectivity and broadband access in rural areas of the Commonwealth and on farmland in the Commonwealth and permits such tool or application to be incorporated into the Department's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Appropriations on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Dog or cat; financing. [HB-330]
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 financing complies with the provisions of state and federal law related to consumer credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0382) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Pesticide control exemptions; herbicide applications by unpaid volunteers. [HB-320]
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 political subdivision for the sole purpose of controlling invasive plants or noxious weeds on properties owned by such local political subdivision. The bill provides that such unpaid volunteer shall use such herbicide under the direct supervision of a certified commercial applicator and the local political
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Bulova
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0720) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & VA Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [HB-297]
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 Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund and the Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
License tax; retired police or military dogs, exemption. [HB-299]
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 include a verification process for the vaccination records of such a dog. 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Ballard
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0187) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. [HB-223]
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 misdemeanor cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of such animals for a period of up to five years. Under current law, such prohibition is limited to companion animals and a period equal to the statutory maximum period of incarceration. The bill also specifies
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0179) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan; regulations. [HB-221]
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 reduce and control the population of free-roaming cats and the abandonment of cats for the purpose of reducing the negative impacts of free-roaming cats on public health, wildlife, and the cat population. The bill permits a locality to adopt such plan created by the Board and include in such plan any ordinances
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Pet shops; notice of deceased animals. [HB-206]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Continued To 2025 In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources By Voice Vote on 01/31/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Agriculture, forestry, and environment; JLARC to study impact of utility-scale solar development. [HJR-12]
Study; JLARC; solar development; agriculture, forestry, and environment; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the impact of utility-scale solar development in the Commonwealth on agriculture, forestry, and the environment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
Left In Rules on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry. [SB-93]
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 information of persons convicted of certain felony offenses for animal cruelty and that a person on such registry may request removal of his name after 15 years, provided that he has no additional felony convictions of an animal cruelty offense. The bill directs that all costs relating to a locality's animal
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0758) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry. [HB-62]
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 information of persons convicted of certain felony offenses for animal cruelty and that a person on such registry may request removal of his name after 15 years, provided that he has no additional felony convictions of an animal cruelty offense. The bill directs that all costs relating to a locality's animal
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0712) on 04/08/2024
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Companion Animal Surgical Sterilization Program and Fund; established and created. [SB-31]
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 dogs. The bill provides that a surcharge of $50 per ton of pet food distributed in the Commonwealth be deposited in the Fund and such pet food be exempted from the existing litter tax. An animal will be eligible for sterilization under the Program if it is a feral or free-roaming cat or is owned by a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Continued To 2025 In Finance And Appropriations (10-y 5-n) on 01/30/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Animal control officers; additional training. [HB-9]
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 by a locality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Continued To 2025 In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources By Voice Vote on 02/07/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Cruelty to animals; possession and ownership of animals. [SB-11]
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 misdemeanor cruelty to animals may be prohibited by the court from possession or ownership of such animals for a period of up to five years. Under current law, such prohibition is limited to companion animals and a period equal to the statutory maximum period of incarceration. The bill also specifies
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0489) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Restaurants; clarifies definition. [SB-1546]
Department of Health; definition of restaurant; emergency. Adds any place or operation that prepares or stores food for distribution to child or adult day care centers or schools, regardless of whether the receiving day care center or school holds a restaurant license, to the definition of "restaurant" as it applies to Title 35.1 (Hotels, Restaurants, Summer Camps, and Campgrounds). The bill has an emergency clause. Department of Health; definition of restaurant; emergency. Adds any place or operation that prepares or stores food for distribution
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0342) on 03/23/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Wholesome food donation; tax credit renewed. [SB-1525]
Wholesome food donation tax credit. Renews the wholesome food donation tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2028. The bill allows any person engaged in the business of farming that donates food crops or wholesome food, defined in the bill, produced by the person in the Commonwealth to a nonprofit food bank to claim a tax credit for the taxable year of the donation in the amount of 50 percent of the fair market value of such donation, not to exceed $10,000 for all such donations made by the person
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lynwood Lewis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0166) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Elephants; pain-inflicting training tools prohibited, penalty. [HB-2483]
Elephants; pain-inflicting training tools prohibited; penalty. Adds elephants to the definition of "dangerous captive animal." The bill also prohibits (i) the use of a bullhook, ankus, baseball bat, axe handle, pitchfork, or similar instrument or a tool designed to inflict pain for the purpose of training or controlling the behavior of an elephant and (ii) poking an elephant with such an instrument or tool for the purpose of training or controlling the behavior of the elephant. A violation is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/07/2023