republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-580.md

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Bill	Animal testing facilities; DACR shall convene task force to identify potential deficiencies.	Animal testing facilities; public notification;report. Requires any animal testing facility, contract testingfacility, or manufacturer, as defined in relevant law, that uses an animal test method to make publicly available, on or before December1 for the preceding federal fiscal year, the total number of animalsused for research, education, testing, or experimental, scientific,or biomedical purposes. The bill requires the report to identifyand group such animals according to species (i) by displaying a linkto access such information on the homepage or landing page of theanimal testing facility's, contract facility's, or manufacturer'swebsite or (ii) if such animal testing facility does not have a website,by making such information available by means of a press releaseor other similar publication.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 580	Virginia HB 580 (2024)	bill		enacted	Shelly A. Simonds	4	34	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/375369d3-1b5b-4e50-ad12-18a0471421c1	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB580	f5555138285663408f4b1a5182e133f29eba5def830e569429d6d137768f4612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 580 (2024) — Animal testing facilities; DACR shall convene task force to identify potential deficiencies.

Animal testing facilities; public notification;report. Requires any animal testing facility, contract testingfacility, or manufacturer, as defined in relevant law, that uses an animal test method to make publicly available, on or before December1 for the preceding federal fiscal year, the total number of animalsused for research, education, testing, or experimental, scientific,or biomedical purposes. The bill requires the report to identifyand group such animals according to species (i) by displaying a linkto access such information on the homepage or landing page of theanimal testing facility's, contract facility's, or manufacturer'swebsite or (ii) if such animal testing facility does not have a website,by making such information available by means of a press releaseor other similar publication.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0693 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106700D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB580ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102144D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 2-N) — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N) — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) — 55–43 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102144D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N)
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB580)
• 2024-01-31 Assigned App. sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Committee substitute printed 24106700D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 24106700D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB580H1 substitution
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House (56-Y 43-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB580H1)
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB580ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB580ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/375369d3-1b5b-4e50-ad12-18a0471421c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).