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1998 SESSION

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HB 486 Game laws.

Introduced by: Clarence E. Phillips | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Game and Inland Fisheries; kill permits. Gives the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries the authority to capture and relocate bears that are damaging a landowner's property. The bill also gives the Director the discretion of whether or not to issue a permit to kill deer which have caused damage on parcels of property of five acres or less which are not used for commercial agricultural production. Currently, the Director must issue a kill permit which authorizes the landowner to have the bears or deer that damaged his property killed. Persons having prior convictions of violating wildlife laws are prohibited from being the shooter on a kill permit. The bill also makes it lawful to sell mounted quail that have been legally raised in captivity and mounted outside of Virginia.

FULL TEXT

• 01/19/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 981684468  pdf
• 02/14/98  House: Floor substitute printed 981700492-H1 (Woodrum)  pdf
• 03/03/98  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB486ER)  pdf
• 04/01/98  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House amendments rejected

HISTORY

• 01/19/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 981684468
• 01/19/98  House: Referred to Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources
• 01/30/98  House: Assigned to C. N. R. sub-committee: 2
• 02/11/98  House: Reported from Cons. & Nat. Res. w/amds. (19-Y 0-N)
• 02/12/98  House: Read first time
• 02/13/98  House: Passed by for the day
• 02/14/98  House: Read second time
• 02/14/98  House: Substitute by Mr. Woodrum agreed to 981700492-H1
• 02/14/98  House: Committee amendments rejected
• 02/14/98  House: Engrossed by House - fl. sub. 981700492-H1 (Woodrum)
• 02/14/98  House: Floor substitute printed 981700492-H1 (Woodrum)
• 02/15/98  House: Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/98  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/98  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/16/98  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/16/98  Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
• 02/23/98  Senate: Reported from A. C. & N. R. (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/98  Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/98  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: Read third time
• 02/25/98  Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/98  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/03/98  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB486ER)
• 03/09/98  House: Enrolled
• 03/10/98  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/11/98  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/30/98  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (effective 7/1/98)
• 04/01/98  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0179)