Virginia House Bill 2257 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Dangerous or vicious dogs; emotional distress damages. Authorizes a general district court to order the owner of a dog that is found to be a dangerous dog to pay restitution for emotional distress damages to any person injured by the animal or whose companion animal was injured or killed by the animal. The bill also authorizes the court to order the owner of a dog that is found to be a vicious dog to pay restitution for emotional distress damages to any person injured by the animal or to the estate of any person killed by the animal.

Dangerous or vicious dogs; emotional distress damages.

Del. Brenda Pogge [R]

2019-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2019-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 0-N)
2019-01-16	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103061D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	6540	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6540.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2257
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2257+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0101V0011+HB2257