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type: "Bill"
title: "Animal fighting; one or more tethered cocks."
description: "Provides that an animal control officer shall confiscate a tethered cock if such cock has been, is, or is intended to be used in animal fighting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1626"
citation: "Virginia HB 1626 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Animal Care and Food"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-10-23"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec2b304a-e8ad-4f9c-a955-ebd7cff31b84"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1626"
source_hash: "80f21699d692fd11d27f3c9dbb9af7ee8bc8733ea82aab363406b970eaa37f48"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1626 (2019) — Animal fighting; one or more tethered cocks.
Provides that an animal control officer shall confiscate a tethered cock if such cock has been, is, or is intended to be used in animal fighting.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0345)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0345)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1626AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1626)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1626ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1626ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100448D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1626)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19100448D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1626E)
7. **House: Printed as reengrossed 19100448D-E2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1626E2)
8. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107056D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1626S1)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **71** (pass) · lower
- Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **130** (pass) · upper
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 19107056D-S1 — **8018** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment — **193** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute — **381** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **7816** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **370** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **131** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-10-23** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100448D `introduction`
- **2018-10-23** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-21** Passed by for the day
- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-01-22** Amendments by Delegate Orrock agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House as amended HB1626E
- **2019-01-22** Printed as engrossed 19100448D-E
- **2019-01-23** Engrossment reconsidered by House
- **2019-01-23** Committee amendment reconsidered
- **2019-01-23** Committee amendment rejected
- **2019-01-23** Amendments by Delegate Orrock agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-23** Reengrossed by House as amended HB1626E2
- **2019-01-23** Printed as reengrossed 19100448D-E2
- **2019-01-24** Read third time and passed House (78-Y 16-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-25** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute agreed to 19107056D-S1
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1626S1
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House 19107056D-S1 (80-Y 18-N 1-A)
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 345 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec2b304a-e8ad-4f9c-a955-ebd7cff31b84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).