Agriculture Animal Care And Food
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Companion animals; amends the definition of "adequate water." [HB-1984]
Care of companion animals; adequate water. Amends the definition of "adequate water" as it relates to the care of companion animals to align with the federal Animal Welfare Act by specifying that water be provided in receptacles that are cleaned and sanitized before being used to provide water to a different dog or cat or a different social grouping of dogs or cats and to specify the intervals at which dogs and cats must be provided clean, fresh, potable water unless restricted by a veterinarian.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources on 02/07/2023
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Cannabis control; retail market, transitional sales, regulated hemp products, penalties. [SB-1133]
Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; regulated hemp products; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, which would be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing marijuana licenses on July 1, 2024, and, beginning July 1, 2023, allows certain pharmaceutical processors, pending establishment of the retail market, to cultivate, manufacture, and sell cannabis products to persons 21 years of age or older. The bill transitions
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In General Laws on 02/22/2023
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Food product sales; waive government inspection. [HB-1802]
Food product sales; waive government inspection. Exempts from certain inspection and permitting requirements food products that are otherwise permitted by state law and are sold either at a farmers market or on the premises where such products were grown or produced. Consumers purchasing exempt food products will sign a waiver provided by the seller that includes information about the products and the producers of such products.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholas Freitas
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & Va Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [HB-1692]
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; City of Petersburg. Adds the City of Petersburg 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. Shelly Simonds
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program; created. [HB-1664]
Governor's Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program. Establishes the Governor's Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program and authorizes the Governor to award grants to political subdivisions from the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund as part of the Program. Such grants, in amounts up to $250,000, shall be awarded as reimbursable grants to support blue catfish processing, flash freezing, and infrastructure projects. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0133) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program Fund; created, extends sunset provision. [HB-1660]
Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program; Fund; sunset. Creates the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program Fund. The bill extends the expiration date of the provisions of the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2028.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0146) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; agricultural exemptions, structural construction materials. [SB-985]
Virginia Retail Sales and Use Tax Act; agricultural exemptions; structural construction materials. Exempts from certain retail sales and use taxes structural construction materials that are an integral part of a commercial greenhouse structure and growing system, ordered to meet the specifications of an operator of such system, and intended to be affixed to or integrated into a commercial greenhouse structure that is at least 50,000 square feet in size. Current law specifies that structural construction materials to be affixed to real property owned
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Incorporated By Finance And Appropriations (14-y 0-n) on 01/25/2023
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Industrial hemp; regulated hemp products, etc. [SB-903]
Tetrahydrocannabinol; hemp products; packaging, labeling, and testing; penalties. Limits the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that can be included in a hemp product or industrial hemp extract to 0.3 percent and two milligrams per package. The bill limits the application of such THC limits to retail sales and allows a hemp product or industrial hemp extract to contain more than two milligrams of THC if the product or extract contains an amount of cannabidiol (CBD) that is at least 25 times greater than the amount of THC; however, the bill prohibits
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Sponsored by: Sen. Emmett Hanger
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0744) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; agricultural exemptions, structural construction materials, definition. [HB-1601]
Retail sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions; structural construction materials; definition. Clarifies that for the purpose of agricultural exemptions from the retail sales and use tax the definition of "structural construction materials" does not include structural construction materials and environmental control systems that will be affixed to or integrated into a commercial greenhouse structure that is 50,000 square feet or more in size, provided that such materials and equipment have been ordered to meet the specifications of the commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Tabled In Finance (22-y 0-n) on 01/16/2023
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Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & Va Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [SB-919]
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; City of Petersburg. Adds the City of Petersburg 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: Sen. Joseph Morrissey
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Finance And Appropriations (16-y 0-n) on 01/25/2023
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Sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions. [HB-1563]
Sales and use tax; agricultural exemptions. Provides a sales and use tax exemption for property used to produce agricultural products for market in an indoor, closed, controlled-environment commercial agricultural facility. The property exempted includes (i) internal structural components required to create the necessary growing environment for plants, including watering systems, towers for growing plants, and lighting and air systems, and (ii) transparent elements of external structural components of such facilities, including windows, walls, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Hyland Fowler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0516) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program; created. [SB-897]
Governor's Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program. Establishes the Governor's Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program and authorizes the Governor to award grants to political subdivisions from the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund as part of the Program. Such grants, in amounts up to $250,000, shall be awarded as reimbursable grants to support blue catfish processing, flash freezing, and infrastructure projects. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0134) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Rabid animals; quarantine of dog or cat, access by local health director or his designee. [HB-1577]
Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines any other suspected rabid animal that may have exposed a person, to allow the local health director or his designee access to the animal during its confinement. Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines
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Sponsored by: Rep. Howard Wachsmann
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0121) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Aerial pesticide application; civil penalty. [HB-1548]
Aerial pesticide application; civil penalty. Requires any commercial applicator or private applicator of pesticides who uses fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft for the aerial application of such pesticides to any lands lying west of the Blue Ridge Mountains to submit the following information to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services no less than seven days prior to such application: (i) the location of such proposed application, (ii) the date and time of such proposed application, and (iii) the brand name or common product name of
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs, civil penalty. [HB-1527]
Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty. Authorizes any public or private animal shelter, releasing agency, or hospital or clinic that is operated under the immediate supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian to operate a trap, neuter, and return program (TNR program), as defined in the bill. The bill exempts volunteers of such program from provisions relating to abandonment and licensing of animals and exempts the operator of such a program from general requirements of shelters related to holding periods, release of animals, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Stricken From Docket By Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources (22-y 0-n) on 01/25/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; right to farm (first reference). [HJR-473]
Constitutional amendment (first reference); right to farm. Provides that all individuals have a right to save and exchange seeds and a right to grow, raise, harvest, produce, exchange, barter, and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health, and well-being.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marie March
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Companion animals; maximum charge for rabies vaccination. [HB-1468]
Rabies vaccination of companion animals; maximum charge. Provides that no licensed veterinarian, licensed veterinary technician, or other employee under the direction of such veterinarians shall (i) charge a fee or impose other costs for a rabies vaccination exceeding $20 or (ii) require additional services alongside such vaccination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lee Ware
Stricken From Docket By Agriculture, Chesapeake And Natural Resources (22-y 0-n) on 01/25/2023
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Pet shops; posting of information about dogs, civil penalty. [HB-1451]
Pet shops; posting of information about dogs; civil penalty. Provides for the assessment of a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation when (i) any owner of a pet shop that sells dogs does not maintain a written record for each dog in its possession containing certain information or (ii) a pet shop that sells dogs fails to post a notice stating that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspection reports are available prior to purchase. Currently, such violations are subject to the enforcement provisions of the Virginia Consumer
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Orrock
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Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization & Tobacco Region Revolving Funds; eligibility. [HB-1441]
Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Giles County; Pulaski County. Adds Giles County and Pulaski County 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
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Dogs and cats; eliminates the requirement to pay license tax for ownership, etc. [HB-1406]
License tax; ownership of dogs and cats. Eliminates the requirement to pay a license tax for owning a dog or cat and eliminates the misdemeanor penalty for failing to pay such license tax.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
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