Virginia House Bill 1480 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-05 - Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Local regulation of pet shops. Authorizes a locality to regulate or restrict by ordinance the acquisition, marketing, and sale of animals in a pet shop. Such ordinance may distinguish between certain types of pet shops and include provisions for special licensing, inspections, reporting, or restrictions on the sale of certain types of animals. The bill also includes various existing statewide provisions related to pet shops in the list of sections for which a locality may adopt parallel or more stringent ordinances.

Pet shops; local regulation on sale of animals.

Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-05	House	Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
2020-01-14	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102872D

HB1480 (Carry Over) 2020-02-05 - Continued to 2021 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	912.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6543	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1480
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1480+hil