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2008 SESSION

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SB 263 Hunting dogs; carrying weapons on another person's property to retrieve prohibited.

Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Retrieving hunting dogs.  Requires the revocation of the hunting license for the current and the next hunting seasons and allows the forfeiture of the firearm or bow and arrow of any person who is convicted of carrying such weapons and hunting on another person's property while he is retrieving his hunting dogs, which will be a Class 2 misdemeanor.  In addition refusal to identify oneself when requested by the landowner to do so is raised from a Class 4 to a Class 2 misdemeanor.

FULL TEXT

• 01/08/08  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083911220  pdf | impact statement
• 02/04/08  Senate: Printed as engrossed 083911220-E  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/08/08  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083911220
• 01/08/08  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/10/08  Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 01/30/08  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 1-N)
• 02/01/08  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/08  Senate: Read second time
• 02/04/08  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 02/04/08  Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
• 02/04/08  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB263E
• 02/04/08  Senate: Printed as engrossed 083911220-E
• 02/05/08  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N)
• 02/05/08  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/12/08  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/12/08  House: Read first time
• 02/12/08  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 02/27/08  House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote