Cats
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Animals. [HB-849]
Prohibits a pet store operator from selling a dog, cat, or rabbit unless the dog, cat, or rabbit was obtained from certain humane sources.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Cats; prohibition on declawing. [HB-1354]
Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill. Declawing cats; prohibition. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats for any person engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Domestic shorthair; designated as the official cat of the Commonwealth. [HB-1274]
Official emblems and designations; cat; domestic shorthair. Designates the domestic shorthair as the official cat of the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Dog or cat; financing. [HB-330]
Financing of a dog or cat. Prohibits the financing of a dog or cat unless such financing complies with the provisions of state and federal law related to consumer credit. Financing of a dog or cat. Prohibits the financing of a dog or cat unless such financing complies with the provisions of state and federal law related to consumer credit.
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan; regulations. [HB-221]
Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan; regulations. Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to promulgate regulations establishing minimum requirements for a Free-Roaming Cat Management Plan and establish a model plan for localities to reduce and control the population of free-roaming cats and the abandonment of cats for the purpose of reducing the negative impacts of free-roaming cats on public health, wildlife, and the cat population. The bill permits a locality to adopt such plan created by the Board and include in such plan any ordinances
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Animals. [HB-849]
Prohibits a pet store operator from selling a dog, cat, or rabbit unless the dog, cat, or rabbit was obtained from certain humane sources.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Dogs and cats; financing for rental, sale, etc., prohibited. [HB-2417]
Financing of dogs and cats prohibited. Prohibits financial institutions, access partners, or covered persons, as defined in relevant law, from offering, arranging, brokering, negotiating, placing, finding, or servicing in Virginia any type of loan, credit, or financing agreement for the financing, rental, lease, sale, or other transfer of a dog or cat. Current law prohibits financial institutions from offering a loan or financing agreement for the rental, lease, or sale of a dog or cat where the animal is subject to repossession upon default under
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pet shops; sale of dogs or cats. [HB-1985]
Pet shops; sale of dogs or cats. Codifies regulations proposed by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services governing the keeping of dogs and cats by pet shops, defined in the bill. The bill requires such pet shops to register and pay a $250 annual registration fee to the Department. The bill requires pet shops in existence on July 1, 2023, to register with the Department by January 1, 2024. The bill prohibits pet shops from offering dogs or cats for sale to research facilities and establishes certain standards of care for the
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; procurement of dogs and cats for research. [HB-2000]
Procurement of dogs and cats for research; public institutions of higher education. Permits public institutions of higher education to purchase or otherwise acquire dogs and cats for use in research, experimentation, or testing from any person or company only if the State Veterinarian or his assistant has inspected such person or company and has determined that no violations of state law regarding the care, control, or protection of or property rights in animals have occurred.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Rabid animals; quarantine of dog or cat, access by local health director or his designee. [HB-1577]
Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines any other suspected rabid animal that may have exposed a person, to allow the local health director or his designee access to the animal during its confinement. Rabid animals; quarantine; access by the local health director or designee. Requires any person who confines a dog or cat for active signs of rabies or suspected rabies, and any person who confines
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs, civil penalty. [HB-1527]
Cats; trap, neuter, and return programs; civil penalty. Authorizes any public or private animal shelter, releasing agency, or hospital or clinic that is operated under the immediate supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian to operate a trap, neuter, and return program (TNR program), as defined in the bill. The bill exempts volunteers of such program from provisions relating to abandonment and licensing of animals and exempts the operator of such a program from general requirements of shelters related to holding periods, release of animals, and
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Dogs and cats; eliminates the requirement to pay license tax for ownership, etc. [HB-1406]
License tax; ownership of dogs and cats. Eliminates the requirement to pay a license tax for owning a dog or cat and eliminates the misdemeanor penalty for failing to pay such license tax.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Cats; prohibition on declawing, civil penalty. [HB-1382]
Declawing cats; prohibition; civil penalty. Makes unlawful the practice of declawing cats except as necessary for a therapeutic purpose, as defined in the bill, and creates a civil penalty of $500 for the first violation, $1,000 for the second violation, and $2,500 for the third or any subsequent violation. The bill also entitles any animal control officer, humane investigator, or state or local law-enforcement officer to bring a civil action for a violation of this section.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Pet shops; sale of unneutered or unspayed dogs and cats prohibited, penalty. [SB-89]
Pet shops; sale of unneutered or unspayed dogs and cats prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a pet shop from selling a dog or cat unless it has first been spayed or neutered. A violation is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Dealers; prohibits sale of dogs or cats for experimental purposes. [HB-1350]
Dealers; sale of dogs or cats for experimental purposes. Prohibits a dealer, commercial dog breeder, or cat breeder, including an entity that breeds dogs or cats regulated under federal law as research animals, from importing for sale, selling, or offering for sale a dog or cat bred by a person who has received certain citations on or after July 1, 2023, pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Animal cruelty; companion animals, penalty. [SB-604]
Animal cruelty; companion animals; penalty. Clarifies that animals are not considered companion animals only when actively involved in bona fide medical or scientific experimentation. Current law exempts animals from the definition of companion animal if they are regulated under federal law as research animals. Animal cruelty; companion animals; penalty. Clarifies that animals are not considered companion animals only when actively involved in bona fide medical or scientific experimentation. Current law exempts animals from the definition of companion
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Dogs and cats; breeding for research, reporting to State Veterinarian. [SB-442]
Breeding of dogs and cats for research; reporting. Requires any person who or entity that breeds dogs and cats for animal testing facilities to report certain information to the State Veterinarian on a monthly basis. The report shall include information regarding the birth, acquisition, death, sale, transfer, or other disposition of a dog or cat in the prior month. Breeding of dogs and cats for research; reporting. Requires any person who or entity that breeds dogs and cats for animal testing facilities to report certain information to the State
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Breeding dogs or cats for foreign animal testing facility; prohibited, penalty. [HB-1061]
Breeding dogs or cats for foreign animal testing facility prohibited; penalty. Prohibits a person from breeding or raising a dog or cat for the purpose of selling or transferring the dog or cat, or its offspring, to an animal testing facility outside of the United States. A violation of the bill is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Pet shops; notice of deceased animals. [HB-523]
Pet shops; reporting. Requires pet shops to retain records indicating any time a dog or cat in its possession dies or is euthanized. Such records shall be maintained for two years and made available to animal control officers and the State Animal Welfare Inspector. Pet shops; reporting. Requires pet shops to retain records indicating any time a dog or cat in its possession dies or is euthanized. Such records shall be maintained for two years and made available to animal control officers and the State Animal Welfare Inspector.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Dogs and cats; procurement for research. [HB-255]
Procurement of dogs and cats for research. Prohibits any state entity, including a public institution of higher education, from procuring dogs or cats for research purposes from a person or entity that has received certain citations pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act.