| VA | SB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Waterworks; contaminants; notification to customers. Requires a waterworks owner that receives a finished water test result from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved method for drinking water for any PFAS chemical subject to a PFAS advisor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB1332 | Engross
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2000 | Intro
Sine Die | Procurement of dogs and cats for research; public institutions of higher education. Permits public institutions of higher education to purchase or otherwise acquire dogs and cats for use in research, experimentation, or testing from any person or com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1721 | Intro
Sine Die | Commissioner of Health; work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's public drinking water; report. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group to study the occurrence of microplastics in the Commonwealth's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1985 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet shops; sale of dogs or cats. Codifies regulations proposed by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services governing the keeping of dogs and cats by pet shops, defined in the bill. The bill requires such pet shops to register and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1451 | Intro
Sine Die | Pet shops; posting of information about dogs; civil penalty. Provides for the assessment of a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation when (i) any owner of a pet shop that sells dogs does not maintain a written record for each dog in its possessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2060 | Intro
Sine Die | Aboveground storage tanks; Hazardous Substance Aboveground Storage Tank Fund; civil penalties. Directs the State Water Control Board to regulate aboveground storage tanks that measure more than 250 gallons in capacity and are used to contain hazardou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Animal testing; annual report; whistle blower protections created; Animal Welfare Whistle Blower Reward Fund established; civil penalty. Requires state and private facilities using animal test methods to annually submit on or before December 1 to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1984 | Intro
Sine Die | Care of companion animals; adequate water. Amends the definition of "adequate water" as it relates to the care of companion animals to align with the federal Animal Welfare Act by specifying that water be provided in receptacles that are cleaned and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1632 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Act; regulations; effective date. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations to implement before July 1, 2024, the requirements of amendments to the Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations in the Commonwealth; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Enviro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1548 | Intro
Sine Die | Aerial pesticide application; civil penalty. Requires any commercial applicator or private applicator of pesticides who uses fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft for the aerial application of such pesticides to any lands lying west of the Blue Ridge Mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1692 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Virginia Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; City of Petersburg. Adds the City of Petersburg to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund; Tobacco Region Revolving Fund; eligible localities; Giles County; Pulaski County. Adds Giles County and Pulaski County to a group of localities that is eligible to receive funds from the Toba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1382 | Intro
Sine Die | Declawing cats; prohibition; civil penalty. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill, and creates a civil penalty of $500 for the first violation, $1,000 for the second violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1970 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee; Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan. Renames the Virginia Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee as the Virginia Resilience Technical Advisory Committee, removes the provision in cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Financing of dogs and cats prohibited. Prohibits financial institutions, access partners, or covered persons, as defined in relevant law, from offering, arranging, brokering, negotiating, placing, finding, or servicing in Virginia any type of loan, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1466 | Intro
Sine Die | Special provisions involving voluntary anti-forced labor and child slavery certifications for sales of low emissions and electric motor vehicles in the Commonwealth of Virginia; remedies for Attorney General when sufficient supply of EV and LEV vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | Hunting deer; establish continuous open season. Establishes a continuous open season for hunting deer with any weapon permitted by law. In current law, the Board of Wildlife Resources adopts regulations that prescribe regular open and closed seasons ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | Elephants; pain-inflicting training tools prohibited; penalty. Adds elephants to the definition of "dangerous captive animal." The bill also prohibits (i) the use of a bullhook, ankus, baseball bat, axe handle, pitchfork, or similar instrument or a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | License tax; ownership of dogs and cats. Eliminates the requirement to pay a license tax for owning a dog or cat and eliminates the misdemeanor penalty for failing to pay such license tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1722 | Intro
Sine Die | Mineral mining and processing; use of certain chemicals prohibited. Prohibits any miner or other person from using cyanide, a cyanide compound, or sulfuric acid in any mineral mining or processing operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1977 | Intro
Sine Die | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area; continued withdrawal permit for residential well. Directs the State Water Control Board to waive the expiration of any ground water withdrawal permit for a well that serves exclusively residential users, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1989 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibition of killing contests. Prohibits contests and competitions that offer cash or prizes for the capture or killing of coyotes or fur-bearing animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1802 | Intro
Sine Die | Food product sales; waive government inspection. Exempts from certain inspection and permitting requirements food products that are otherwise permitted by state law and are sold either at a farmers market or on the premises where such products were g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB482 | Engross
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Consultation with federally recognized Tribal Nations; permits and reviews with potential impacts on environmental, cultural, and historic resources. Requires the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1074 | Intro
Sine Die | Rabies vaccination; titer test; certification. Directs the Board of Health to develop, by regulation, an exemption to the rabies vaccination requirement for animals if a licensed veterinarian certifies in writing that the vaccine would endanger the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Placement of piles; no permit required. Provides that no permit shall be required for (i) the placement of piles for an existing private pier or to establish a boat slip or mooring within the owner's riparian area or (ii) a de minimis subaqueous dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Noxious weeds. Amends the definition of "noxious weeds" to exclude plants that are commercially significant, directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Board) to implement a phase out period when a new plant is listed as a noxious we...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
