Prefiled:
12/21/2016
Sponsor:
Senator Priscilla Dunn
Issue Brief:
Animal Rights Groups;
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Relates to dog or cat breeders; establishes the Alabama Dog and Cat Breeders Commission; gives the commission the authority to license dog and cat breeders; provides exemptions of certain animals and breeders; authorizes the commission, by rule, to set certain standards for breeding and the minimum standard of care for certain animals, perform inspections and investigations, set licensing requirements and fees, require certain notifications, and perform criminal background checks.
Status:
Prefiled on December 21
Prefiled:
01/03/2017
Sponsor: Senator Frank Artiles, Chair, Florida Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Contraception Preemption; Invasive Species
Summary:
Relates to nonnative animals.
Status:
Prefiled on January 3
Prefiled:
10/28/2016
Sponsor: Representative Addia Kathryn Wuchner, Member, Kentucky Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Removes the sport fishing license exemption for resident farmland owners and create a new sport fishing license exemption for private landowners and their spouses, dependents, tenants, and invited guests when fishing on their property from ponds or lakes that do not allow fish entry from or exit to public waters.
Status:
Assigned House Bill No. 65
Introduced:
01/03/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Ashley Henley
Issue Brief:
Hunter Education
Summary:
Provides an exemption to any resident who is an active duty, retired or honorably discharged member of the armed forces, including the reserves and National Guard, from the hunter education course requirements as a condition of receiving any license for which such course is required; provides that the exempted resident shall have in his possession and on his person any proof as may be required by the commission.
Status:
To House Committee on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks on January 3
Introduced:
01/03/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Randy Boyd
Issue Brief: Hunting with Dogs
Summary:
Authorizes the state Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to designate certain sections within selected wildlife management areas as zones for hunting deer with dogs during any regulated deer season; authorizes the commission to designate certain sections within selected wildlife management areas as zones for hunting wild hogs with dogs; requires hunters when hunting wild hogs during any season established by the commission for hunting deer on wildlife management areas, to meet certain requirements.
Status:
To House Committee on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks on January 3
Introduced:
01/03/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Brad Touchstone
Issue Brief:
Hunting, Angling & Nature Appreciation in Schools; Hunter Education
Summary:
Includes hunter safety education as part of the public school curriculum; limits the course attendance to students in the sixth through twelfth grades; requires the course to be taught by a person certified by the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; provides that the determination of whether to offer hunter safety education in a school shall be in the discretion of the school district superintendents.
Status:
Additionally referred to House Committee on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks on January 3
Prefiled:
12/15/2016
Sponsor:
Representative Jeff Johnson
Issue Brief:
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Relates to Chapter 3, Title 47; establishes standards for commercial dog breeders; defines necessary terms to require a commercial dog breeder to be licensed; establishes that a commercial dog breeder only may breed a female dog after an annual certification examination; grants authority to an investigator to investigate potential violations of this article; provides penalties and exceptions.
Status:
To House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Affairs on December 15
Prefiled:
12/15/2016
Sponsor:
Representative Mike Sottile
Issue Brief:
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Provides for the regulation of commercial kennel operators and certified animal caretakers; provides the purpose of the act; provides necessary definitions; creates the commercial kennel and certified animal caretakers examiners board; provides for its members, terms, powers, and duties; provides for registration, examination, and certification of certified animal caretakers; provides for suspension or revocation of certificates of certified animal caretakers.
Status:
To House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Affairs on December 15
Prefiled:
12/15/2016
Sponsor:
Representative Robert L. Ridgeway
Issue Brief:
Hunting with Dogs
Summary:
Defines the term hunting deer with a dog; provides that a person hunting deer with a dog must cause the dog to be identified with a collar; provides the procedure whereby a lost dog is returned to its owner; provides that the owner of a dog that trespasses on another person's property is liable for civil damages; provides that it is unlawful to steal, harm, or kill a dog in pursuit of a deer that has identifiable owner information or remove or destroy any means of identifying or tracking the dog.
Status:
To House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Affairs on December 15
Prefiled:
12/15/2016
Sponsor:
Representative Wendell Gilliard
Issue Brief:
Ammunition Restrictions (non-lead)
Summary:
Provides that it is unlawful for a person to use, transport, manufacture, possess, distribute, sell, or buy green tip ammunition; provides a penalty.
Status:
To House Committee on Judiciary on December 15
Prefiled:
12/15/2016
Sponsor:
Representative Wendell Gilliard
Issue Brief:
Guns (General); Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Relates to penalties for violations of certain offenses involving weapons; includes assault weapons in the purview of the statute and increase the penalties for a violation and create a two-tiered penalty scheme; relates to definitions for purposes of the article; defines the term assault weapon; relates to the unlawful transportation; storing, keeping, or possessing; relates to sale, rental, or giving away of machine guns, military firearms, sawed-off shotguns or rifles, respectively; includes assault.
Status:
To House Committee on Judiciary on December 15
Prefiled:
12/13/2016
Sponsor:
Delegate Bobby Orrock
Issue Brief:
Conservation Tax Incentives
Summary:
Relates to real property tax; relates to special assessment for land preservation; prohibits any locality from requiring any taxpayer who is the lessor of real property to produce the lease for the purpose of determining whether the property is eligible for special assessment for land preservation.
Status:
To House Committee on Finance on December 13
Prefiled:
12/13/2016
Sponsor:
Delegate Bobby Orrock
Issue Brief:
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing/ Animal Rights Groups; Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Relates to cats and dogs; relates to lifetime licenses; authorizes the governing body of a county or city to provide for a lifetime dog or cat license; removes the minimum annual tax for a dog or cat, sets the maximum tax for a lifetime license at $50, and limits the fee for a duplicate dog or cat tag to $1.
Status:
To House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on December 13
Prefiled:
01/02/2017
Sponsor:
Delegate Barry D Knight, Member, Virginia Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)
Summary:
Relates to purse net fishing; prohibits fishing for menhaden with purse nets in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries within one-half mile of mean low water and within three miles of the shoreline of Virginia Beach extending to the North Carolina border.
Status:
Prefiled on January 2
Prefiled:
12/02/2016
Sponsor:
Senator William Stanley
Issue Brief:
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Relates to study; relates to Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study spay-neuter programs in the Commonwealth; relates to report; requests the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the availability and effectiveness of spay-neuter programs in Commonwealth.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Rules on December 2
Prefiled:
12/26/2016
Sponsor:
Senator Scott A. Surovell
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
Relates to introduction of snakehead fish; relates to penalty; prohibits the introduction of snakehead fish from any location into state Waters; provides that current law only prohibits the introduction of snakehead fish from outside the Commonwealth.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources on December 26
Prefiled:
01/03/2017
Sponsor: Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Member, Virginia Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Conservation Tax Incentives
Summary:
Relates to land preservation tax credit; relates to per taxpayer limitation; extends to taxable year the specified limit on the amount that a taxpayer may claim per year under the land preservation tax credit; the bill retains the specified limit for each subsequent taxable year.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Finance on January 3
Introduced:
01/03/2017
Sponsor:
Senator A. Benton Chafin
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Relates to hunting license; relates to bear, deer, or turkey; relates to electronic carry; removes the requirement that a license to hunt bear, deer, or turkey be carried in paper form, allowing it to be carried by electronic or computerized means.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources on January 3
