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HOUSE BILL NO. 40 Offered January 9, 2008 Prefiled December 5, 2007 A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia, relating to euthanizing animals. ---------- Patron-- Scott, J.M. ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3.1-796.77. Disposal of animals by means of decompression chamber or gas chamber prohibited.

No animal shall be euthanized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by means of a high altitude decompression chamber or a gas chamber.

2.  That the provisions of this act shall become effective on October 1, 2008.