Virginia House Bill 709

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Department of Wildlife Resources; killing of deer, elk, or bear damaging fruit trees, crops, livestock, or personal property. Allows the owner or lessee of lands upon which damage to fruit trees, crops, livestock, or personal property utilized for commercial agricultural production has occurred to solicit the opinion of a district biologist in a neighboring district when, after an assessment by the district biologist for the lands upon which such damage has occurred, authorization to kill an animal is not granted by the Director of the Department of Wildlife Resources or his designee.

Deer, elk, or bear; damaging fruit trees, crops, etc.

Del. Michael Webert [R]

2024-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2024-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N)
2024-01-23	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101138D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
29	1	529	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB709
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB709+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB709F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+H0103V0006+HB0709