Subject Hunting Laws and Permits | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
