Subject Agriculture, Horticulture, and Food | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SB887 | Farm use vehicles. Increases the distance that farm use vehicles used for agricultural and horticultural purposes and the seasonal transportation of produce and livestock may travel on the highways from 30 to 50 miles. This bill also makes technical ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| VA | HB1562 | Control of dangerous and vicious dogs; penalties. Authorizes an animal control officer or law-enforcement officer to apply to a magistrate for a summons where the officer believes that the owner of a vicious dog has willfully failed to comply with t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732) |
| VA | HB1824 | Virginia port volume increase tax credit. Extends the tax credit beginning in 2013 to growers or producers of (i) wheat, grains, fruits, nuts, crops; (ii) tobacco, nursery, or floral products; (iii) forestry products excluding raw wood fiber or wood ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) |
| VA | HB2137 | Localities; environmental impact reports and the sale of certain deicing agents. Raises from $500,000 to $2 million the cost threshold at which a locality will be required to obtain an environmental impact report for a highway project. For certain pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0758) |
| VA | SB1021 | Cigarette and other tobacco products taxes; electronic transactions. Authorizes (i) the Attorney General and the Department of Taxation to accept electronic filing of reports by stamping agents and manufacturers and (ii) the Department of Taxation to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| 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 | HB1859 | Rabies clinics. Requires a local governing body to ensure that a rabies clinic is conducted to serve the jurisdiction at least once every two years. Currently, a clinic is to be held once a year if the local government finds that the number of reside... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) |
| VA | HB1852 | Inspection of food establishments and labeling of foods. Exempts private homes where the resident processes and prepares certain food products, including dried fruits, dry herbs, dry seasonings, nuts, vinegars, dried pasta, dry baking mixes, and cere... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285) |
| VA | HB1695 | Renewable energy; agricultural net metering. Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish a net energy metering program for eligible agricultural customers. Agricultural net metering will allow a customer that operates a solar, wind, or aer... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268) |
| VA | HB2092 | Confidentiality of tax information. Authorizes the Tax Commissioner to provide the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services with the name and address of taxpayers who identify themselves as subject to Board of Agriculture and Consumer Servic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| VA | HB2054 | Sales and use tax exemption; property used for harvesting forest products. Changes the sales and use tax exemption related to harvesting forest products from property "necessary" for such harvesting, to property "used" for such harvesting. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223) |
| VA | HB2035 | Land conveyance in and adjacent to Old Flat State Forest in Grayson County. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to convey and accept an exchange of lands with Rodney Richardson on an approximately acre-for-acre or equal-market-value basis. In retur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0220) |
| VA | HB2069 | Sale of seedlings. Authorizes the State Forester to (i) provide seedlings at no expense for use on state forests, public grounds, and state parks and (ii) sell seedlings to private individuals. The terms and conditions of the sale and the price of th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) |
| VA | HB2086 | Regulatory powers of Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Removes the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services' authority to adopt regulations establishing schedules for calibration of service agencies' weights and measures standards and aut... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0125) |
| VA | SB1068 | Conveyance of easements. Authorizes the conveyance of right-of-way easements between the Department of Forestry and the Ratcliffe Foundation. The easements will allow the Department better access to Channels State Forest and will allow the Foundation... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106) |
| VA | SB828 | Control of dangerous and vicious dogs; penalties. Authorizes an animal control officer or law-enforcement officer to apply to a magistrate for a summons where the officer believes that the owner of a vicious dog has willfully failed to comply with t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| VA | SB698 | Excise tax on peanuts. Extends the $0.30 per 100 pounds excise tax on all peanuts grown in and sold in Virginia until July 1, 2016. The proceeds from the tax will be used for promoting the sales and use of Virginia peanuts. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0040) |
| VA | HB1320 | Excise tax on peanuts. Extends the $0.30 per 100 pounds excise tax on all peanuts grown in and sold in Virginia until July 1, 2016. The proceeds from the tax will be used for promoting the sales and use of Virginia peanuts. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| 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 | HJR586 | Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate high... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | HB1430 | Right to Farm Act. Expands the definition of agricultural operations to include the commerce of farm-to-business and farm-to-consumer sales as well as commerce in other related items. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that an agricultural ope... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 4-N) |
| VA | HB1484 | Farm use vehicles. Extends the travel distance limitation on unregistered vehicles used on a seasonal basis in transporting farm produce and livestock along public highways from 50 miles to 100 miles. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1893 | Virginia Adoptable and Transferable Companion Animal Registry. Requires the State Veterinarian to establish and maintain a website where representatives of releasing agencies may post information on companion animals that are available for adoption b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1863 | Adoption of ordinances for the control of dangerous or vicious dogs. Expands the list of statutes that a locality may use as the basis for parallel ordinances by adding §3.2-6540, which deals with the control of dangerous or vicious dogs, to the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1839 | Home-produced operations. Exempts food products processed or prepared in private homes or farms from Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services regulations that apply to food establishments so long as the products are sold to end consumers and labele... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR609 | Study; composition of biosolids; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to study the substances contained in biosolids generated from wastewater treatment facilities that are applied to lands for agricultural purposes. Report. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2242 | Animal abuser registration; penalties. Requires anyone 18 or older who has been convicted of a felony violation of an animal cruelty law to register with the office of the primary law-enforcement agency in the locality when he is present in Virginia ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | SJR370 | Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate high... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-01 Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| VA | HB1834 | High Performance Building Act; use of certain forest products. Requires the Department of General Services to include in the high performance building certification program, certificate credits for forest products certified by the Forest Stewardship ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-31 Stricken from docket by General Laws by voice vote |
| VA | SB961 | Board of Housing and Community Development; Statewide Fire Prevention Code; annual operational permits for certain open burning. Provides for the Board of Housing and Community Development to promulgate regulations to allow food vendors servicing com... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-21 Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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 | SB403 | Land preservation tax credit; working farmers. Increases the land preservation tax credit from 40 percent to 50 percent of the fair market value of the conveyance for working farmers, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | SB610 | Regulation of care and handling of agricultural animals. Provides that the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services occupies the entire field of regulation of the care and handling of agricultural animals and that no locality or humane society... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-30 |
| VA | HB158 | Devocalization of cats and dogs; penalty. Requires veterinarians to keep records of devocalization procedures and provides that any person, including a licensed veterinarian, who performs a surgical devocalization on a cat or dog when such procedure ... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB396 | Invasive plants. Instructs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt regulations for the control of invasive plants. The bill classifies invasive plants as belonging to one of two tiers, depending upon whether the plant is widely dissem... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
| VA | HB82 | Real property tax; land use valuation. Provides that roll-back taxes shall not apply to real property that loses its designation as devoted to agricultural or horticultural use because of excavation of sand or gravel on it, provided that such propert... [Detail][Text] | 2012-11-29 |
