Virginia Senate Bill 1390

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2021 - 25% progression
Action: 2021-01-18 - Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Companion Animals Committee
Hearing: Jan 21 @ 9:00 am in in SR East at Museum. Register to speak at GA site:
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty. Authorizes any public or private animal shelter, releasing agency, or hospital or clinic that is operated under the immediate supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian to operate a trap, neuter, and return program, as defined in the bill. The bill exempts volunteers of such program from provisions related to abandonment and licensing of animals and exempts the operator from general requirements of shelters related to holding periods, release of animals, and recordkeeping. A person who violates certain required provisions for such a program is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $150 brought by any animal control officer, humane investigator, releasing agency, or the State Veterinarian or State Veterinarian's representative.

Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-18	Senate	Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals
2021-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2021-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102789D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	6500	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6524	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6546	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6551	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	6579.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1390
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1390+hil