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2017 SESSION
SB 801 Dogs; public animal shelters required to notify intent to euthanize.
Introduced by: William M. Stanley, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Public animal shelters; dogs; euthanasia. Requires a public animal shelter to wait three days before euthanizing a dog or cat when a person has notified the shelter of his intent to adopt or take custody of the particular animal. The shelter must make reasonable efforts to accomplish the release of the animal, but is not required hold the animal if it has reason to believe that the animal has seriously injured a human or the animal meets certain other specified conditions for euthanasia. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 10/07/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100684D pdf | impact statement
- 01/19/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104187D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/17 Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104187D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 10/07/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100684D
- 10/07/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/19/17 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104187D-S1
- 01/19/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/25/17 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/17 Senate: Read second time
- 01/27/17 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/27/17 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104187D-S1
- 01/27/17 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/27/17 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/27/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB801ES1
- 01/27/17 Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104187D-ES1
- 01/30/17 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/02/17 House: Read first time
- 02/02/17 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/06/17 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
- 02/21/17 House: Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources