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Bill	Pet shops; local ordinance requiring bond for out-of-state breeder.	Authorizes any local governing body to adopt an ordinance that requires any pet shop selling dogs procured from outside the Commonwealth to furnish a bond of at least $5,000 if it maintains for sale an average of 50 or fewer dogs per year and not more than $30,000 if it maintains for sale an average of 51 or more dogs per year. The bill authorizes such a locality to reduce or waive the bond requirement at its discretion and to terminate the bond requirement for a pet shop that has operated without interruption for 10 years without having its bond called by the locality. The bill provides that if a pet shop ceases business operations, the locality shall have the right to call the bond and utilize the resulting funds as necessary to protect the welfare of the animals or fish from the shop.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 865	Virginia HB 865 (2018)	bill	Agriculture Animal Care and Food Counties Cities and Towns	enacted	Robert D. Orrock, Sr.	3	22	9	2018-01-09	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/1ccc9266-0d42-4149-879d-dcef8057d066	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB865	6f2b948e420ab8020b1118557a6169ba2d286f5623658d9016cedbbfcda68074	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 865 (2018) — Pet shops; local ordinance requiring bond for out-of-state breeder.

Authorizes any local governing body to adopt an ordinance that requires any pet shop selling dogs procured from outside the Commonwealth to furnish a bond of at least $5,000 if it maintains for sale an average of 50 or fewer dogs per year and not more than $30,000 if it maintains for sale an average of 51 or more dogs per year. The bill authorizes such a locality to reduce or waive the bond requirement at its discretion and to terminate the bond requirement for a pet shop that has operated without interruption for 10 years without having its bond called by the locality. The bill provides that if a pet shop ceases business operations, the locality shall have the right to call the bond and utilize the resulting funds as necessary to protect the welfare of the animals or fish from the shop.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB865ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 18106289D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100009D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment — 13–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100009D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2018-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 18106289D-H1
• 2018-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB865H1
• 2018-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
• 2018-02-20 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2018-02-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2018-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2018-02-22 Senate amendment agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-28 Signed by President
• 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 272 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ccc9266-0d42-4149-879d-dcef8057d066. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).