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HB 1516 Wildlife traps; use of remote trap-checking technology.
Introduced by: David L. Bulova | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Visiting wildlife traps. Requires the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to adopt regulations allowing trappers to use remote trap-checking technology to check traps under specified conditions. Current law requires trappers to visit their traps either daily or, in the case of body-gripping traps that are completely submerged, once every 72 hours and remove all animals that have been caught in the traps.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101888D pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1516ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/10/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/06/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101888D
- 01/06/15 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/19/15 House: Assigned ACNRsub: Natural Resources
- 01/21/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/15 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/15 House: Read first time
- 01/30/15 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/02/15 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/15 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/12/15 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/15 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/15 Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/15 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/15 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/15 House: Enrolled
- 02/20/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1516ER)
- 02/20/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/15 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/24/15
- 02/24/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/10/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 47 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/10/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047)