VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2020 SESSION

• | print version

HB 27 Cruelty to animals; serious bodily injury, first offense, penalty.

Introduced by: Joseph C. Lindsey | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Cruelty to animals; serious bodily injury; first offense; penalty. Provides that a person who commits an act of animal cruelty that results in serious bodily injury to or the death or euthanasia of an animal is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law requires that the person have been convicted of an act of cruelty within the past five years and that an animal die as a direct result of the current or past act of cruelty before the violation is a Class 6 felony. The bill expands the authority of a court to order anger management treatment from cases of misdemeanor cruelty to all cases. The bill contains technical amendments.

FULL TEXT

• 11/19/19  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100519D  pdf | impact statements

HISTORY

• 11/19/19  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100519D
• 11/19/19  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 01/14/20  House: Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
• 01/22/20  House: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)