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Bill Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employees convicted of animal abuse, penalty. Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employeesconvicted of animal abuse; penalty. Requires pet shops, dealers, and commercial dog breeders to obtain a signed statement from anyprospective owner, director, officer, manager, member, operator,member of staff, or animal caregiver of such pet shop, dealer, orcommercial dog breeder, respectively, that such person has neverbeen convicted of animal cruelty, neglect, or abandonment. The billprohibits pet shops from selling or giving for adoption an animalwithout first obtaining such statement from the purchaser or adopterand prohibits dealers and commercial dog breeders from importing,selling, or offering for sale any dog to a pet shop without firstobtaining such statement from each owner, director, officer, manager,member, operator, member of staff, and animal caregiver of the petshop. Failure by such person to provide, or by such pet shop, dealer,or dog breeder to obtain, such statement is a Class 1 misdemeanor. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 SB 1412 Virginia SB 1412 (2021)
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Virginia SB 1412 (2021) — Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employees convicted of animal abuse, penalty.

Pet shops, dealers, and dog breeders; employeesconvicted of animal abuse; penalty. Requires pet shops, dealers, and commercial dog breeders to obtain a signed statement from anyprospective owner, director, officer, manager, member, operator,member of staff, or animal caregiver of such pet shop, dealer, orcommercial dog breeder, respectively, that such person has neverbeen convicted of animal cruelty, neglect, or abandonment. The billprohibits pet shops from selling or giving for adoption an animalwithout first obtaining such statement from the purchaser or adopterand prohibits dealers and commercial dog breeders from importing,selling, or offering for sale any dog to a pet shop without firstobtaining such statement from each owner, director, officer, manager,member, operator, member of staff, and animal caregiver of the petshop. Failure by such person to provide, or by such pet shop, dealer,or dog breeder to obtain, such statement is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0339 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 21103465D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100834D (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB1412ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 3-N) — 183 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Passage (67-Y 28-N) — 6628 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) — 2910 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (11-Y 4-N) — 114 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 71 (pass) · lower
  • Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 00 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

  • William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100834D introduction
  • 2021-01-13 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2021-01-18 Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals referral-committee
  • 2021-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB1412)
  • 2021-01-25 Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-01-26 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-01-26 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (11-Y 4-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-01-26 Committee substitute printed 21103465D-S1 substitution
  • 2021-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-01-29 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2021-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 21103465D-S1
  • 2021-01-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1412S1
  • 2021-02-01 Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 10-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2021-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB1412S1)
  • 2021-02-05 Placed on Calendar
  • 2021-02-05 Read first time reading-1
  • 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 2021-02-09 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
  • 2021-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
  • 2021-02-17 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 3-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-19 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-22 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-22 Passed by for the day
  • 2021-02-23 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-23 Motion to pass by Amendments by Delegate Wilt agreed to
  • 2021-02-23 Passed House (67-Y 28-N) passage
  • 2021-02-23 VOTE: Passage (67-Y 28-N)
  • 2021-02-25 Enrolled
  • 2021-02-25 Signed by President
  • 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB1412ER)
  • 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
  • 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 339 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97848a9b-c475-4521-bcbf-c6a498d3aa6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).