VA Code | §29 | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | HB1825 | Riparian stationary blinds. Establishes time periods for a person to obtain a stationary blind license. A riparian landowner or his lessee or permittee seeking to license a riparian stationary blind that was not licensed by him the previous year may ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0745) |
| VA | SB1117 | Watercraft titling certificates; adoption of uniform act; penalty. Repeals Virginia's existing watercraft titling law and enacts in its place the Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act as adopted in 2011 by the National Conference of Commission... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| VA | SB1277 | Wildlife exhibitor permit. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to establish standards for the possession and display of wildlife by elementary and secondary school teachers for educational purposes. The bill exempts such exhibits from the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| VA | HB1629 | Eel pots. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue an annual permit to use eel pots in the waters of Back Bay and the North Landing River and their tributaries. The annual permit fee to catch eels for commercial purposes is $50 and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0706) |
| VA | HB1829 | Using a GPS device to manage dogs in pursuit of foxes. Allows hunters to use a GPS (Global Positioning System) or other electronic tracking device to manage dogs that are hunting or pursuing a fox. Current law distinguishes actually following a dog f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345) |
| VA | HB1929 | Deer kill permits. Authorizes the chief law-enforcement officer of a town to report to the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries that deer are creating a traffic hazard in the jurisdiction. If after an investigation the Director fin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0346) |
| VA | HB2099 | Shooting of muskrats and raccoons. Allows a landowner to trap or shoot fur-bearing animals including muskrats and raccoons upon his own land during the closed season when these animals are causing damage to his crops or property, or are posing a thre... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349) |
| VA | HB2184 | Trip hunting and fishing licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue trip hunting licenses to nonresidents and trip fishing licenses to residents and nonresidents for time periods and at costs determined by the Board. Current... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351) |
| VA | SB1053 | Boating safety education. Exempts United States Navy qualified surface warfare officers or qualified enlisted surface warfare specialists from having to pass a boating safety education course in order to operate a motorboat. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0048) |
| VA | SB1280 | Fox and coyote enclosures; penalty. Makes it unlawful for any person to (i) stage or participate in any competition where a fox or coyote is pursued by dogs in an enclosure or (ii) award or accept any prize, money, or compensation resulting from part... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 |
| VA | SB737 | Navigation on freshwaters. Provides that the freshwaters of the Commonwealth shall be open to nonmotorized vessels for purposes of recreation between sunrise and sunset. This policy will apply regardless of whether the water body is deemed to be navi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 Defeated by Senate (18-Y 21-N 1-A) |
| VA | HB1762 | Hunting on Sunday. Allows any person to hunt or kill wild animals on Sunday, on private lands in the Counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William. However, the hunting or killing of wild birds on Sunday in these localities would continu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1947 | Authority to create separate special hunting licenses. Authorizes the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to create separate special licenses for the hunting of deer or turkey. Under current law, the Board is authorized to create a separate special li... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2036 | Hunting with bow and arrow or crossbow. Allows persons who hunt with a bow and arrow or a crossbow to hunt wild birds or wild animals, including any nuisance species, on Sunday. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2037 | Hunting nuisance species on Sunday. Allows the hunting or killing of nuisance species on Sunday. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2112 | Hunting on Sunday. Allows hunting on Sunday on state and federal military bases, installations, and facilities with the approval of the commanding officer of the base, installation, or facility. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2149 | Sale of freshwater fish. Allows the sale and purchase of freshwater fish that are grown in an aquaculture facility, so long as the fish is of the same species as a fish found in Virginia waters. The person selling or offering for sale such fish is re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2225 | Hunting on Sundays. Allows any person to hunt on private lands on Sunday, with the permission of the owner of the lands. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SB954 | Impeding hunting; drones; penalty. Provides that the use of a drone by a private person to monitor and photograph persons lawfully hunting on private property, when the drone is used by a private person without the permission of the landowner, consti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1413 | Nonresident freshwater fishing license. Establishes a one-day fishing license for nonresidents to fish in the inland waters of the Commonwealth. The license will specify the date on which the license is valid. The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-30 Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| VA | SB803 | Hunting nuisance species. Makes it lawful to hunt or kill nuisance species on Sunday. Among the species that could be hunted on Sunday are blackbirds, coyotes, crows, cowbirds, feral swine, grackles, English sparrows, starlings, and those species des... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-23 Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N) |
| VA | HB1597 | Personal flotation devices required for children; civil penalty. Requires children 12 years of age or younger to wear a Type I, II, III, or V U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device. Any person who violates the bill's provisions may be as... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-16 Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1954 | Antique motorboats. Establishes a special one-time $100 registration fee for antique motorboats, defined as vessels that are essentially as originally constructed, used for noncommercial purposes, and at least 30 years old. The registration has to be... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-16 Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| VA | HB8 | Reporting of vessel accident; penalty. Requires any passenger 18 years of age or older who is a passenger in a vessel that is involved in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury or death and in which the operator has (i) failed to stop and ren... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB25 | Appointment of Director of Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Removes the authority of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to appoint the Director of the Department, resulting in the Governor making the appointment. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB176 | Jurisdiction of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Removes the jurisdiction to enforce fishing and boating laws in the waters of Back Bay and the inlets and navigable waters in the Tidewater counties and cities from the Department of Game a... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB202 | Penning of fox and coyote; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to erect or maintain an enclosure for the purpose of pursuing, hunting, or killing or attempting to pursue, hunt, or kill a fox or coyote with dogs. The bill also makes... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB477 | Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful exotic animals; however, the owner of such animals is req... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB683 | Tick control; Sunday hunting of deer and permits for application of acaricides. Authorizes Sunday hunting of deer within the boundaries of any locality upon a finding by the governing body of that locality that tick-borne Lyme disease constitutes a s... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB342 | Designation of a person authorized to kill deer or bear damaging property. Permits a landowner or lessee whose property may be damaged by deer or bear to request that another person or persons be designated to kill such animals upon any written autho... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1242 | Dangerous wild animals. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to privately possess, sell, transfer, or breed dangerous wild animals, which are identified by taxonomic classification. The bill would grandfather in the ownership of any existing lawful dangero... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB1249 | Duck blinds. Changes the dates for renewing a person's riparian duck blind license. For persons holding riparian duck blind license the time for obtaining a license is changed from the current period May 1 through June 15 to the period February 1 to ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | SB71 | Grand larceny; first offender. Allows the court to defer disposition for a person charged with larceny who has not previously been convicted of or charged with a felony, an offense related to larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or any crime of moral turpit... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
