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2021 SESSION
SB 1412 Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employees convicted of animal abuse, penalty.
Introduced by: William M. Stanley, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employees convicted of animal abuse; penalty. Prohibits any person from serving as an owner, director, officer, manager, operator, member of staff, or animal caregiver of a pet shop, dealer, or commercial dog breeder if such person has been convicted of animal cruelty. The bill prohibits pet shops from selling or giving for adoption an animal without first obtaining a signed statement from the purchaser or adopter that such person has never been convicted of animal curelty. A violation of such requirement is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100834D pdf | impact statement
- 01/26/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103465D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100834D
- 01/13/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/18/21 Senate: Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals
- 01/26/21 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (11-Y 4-N)
- 01/26/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103465D-S1
- 01/28/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Read second time
- 01/29/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/29/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21103465D-S1
- 01/29/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1412S1
- 02/01/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 10-N)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote