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type: "Bill"
title: "Animal testing facilities; DACR shall convene task force to identify potential deficiencies."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 580"
citation: "Virginia HB 580 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelly A. Simonds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/375369d3-1b5b-4e50-ad12-18a0471421c1"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB580"
source_hash: "f5555138285663408f4b1a5182e133f29eba5def830e569429d6d137768f4612"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0693)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106700D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB580H1)
3. **HB580ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB580ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102144D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB580)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 2-N) — **112** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 3-N) — **73** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **381** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — **148** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) — **148** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (56-Y 43-N) — **5543** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/375369d3-1b5b-4e50-ad12-18a0471421c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).