republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-1874.md

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Bill	Cruelty to animals; increases penalty.	Provides that any person who tortures, willfully inflicts inhumane injury or pain not connected with bona fide scientific or medical experimentation, or cruelly and unnecessarily beats, maims, or mutilates any dog or cat that is a companion animal whether belonging to him or another and as a direct result causes serious bodily injury to such dog or cat is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law requires that the animal die for the person to be guilty of the felony. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1874	Virginia HB 1874 (2019)	bill	Agriculture Animal Care and Food Appropriations	enacted	Margaret B. Ransone	8	33	12	2019-01-03	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/42f80b3b-1960-46b1-ad07-310d2a735822	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1874	127a0ec11a0787ef7a3d0115d22a13c00d42a435e08fbd386aad0e59ef65a4ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1874 (2019) — Cruelty to animals; increases penalty.

Provides that any person who tortures, willfully inflicts inhumane injury or pain not connected with bona fide scientific or medical experimentation, or cruelly and unnecessarily beats, maims, or mutilates any dog or cat that is a companion animal whether belonging to him or another and as a direct result causes serious bodily injury to such dog or cat is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law requires that the animal die for the person to be guilty of the felony. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1874ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19106243D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Conference substitute printed 19107614D-H2 (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102784D (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107355D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107369D-S2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House 19107369D-S2 — 0–99 (fail) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Incorporated by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (HB2642-Levine) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House — 91–6 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 15–3 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House — 92–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
• Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
• Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102784D introduction
• 2019-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 19106243D-H1
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1874H1
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House (91-Y 6-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2019-02-18 Reconsidered by Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
• 2019-02-18 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-20 Committee substitute rejected 19107355D-S1
• 2019-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 19107369D-S2
• 2019-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1874S2
• 2019-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-21 Senate substitute rejected by House 19107369D-S2 (0-Y 99-N)
• 2019-02-21 Senate requested conference committee
• 2019-02-21 House acceded to request
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by House
• 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2019-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-22 Conference substitute printed 19107614D-H2
• 2019-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 1-N)
• 2019-03-07 Enrolled
• 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-03-09 Signed by President
• 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
• 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 536 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42f80b3b-1960-46b1-ad07-310d2a735822. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).