republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-62.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry.	Animal Cruelty Conviction List established.Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish no laterthan January 1, 2027, and to maintain the Animal Cruelty ConvictionList and to make the List available to the public on the websiteof the Department of State Police. The bill specifies that the Listinclude the names of persons convicted of certain felony animal crueltyoffenses on or after July 1, 2024. The bill requires persons convictedof any such offense to pay a fee of $50 per conviction to fund themaintenance of the List. The bill also requires the Department toremove a person's name and information from the List 15 years afterits listing if he has no additional felony conviction of any such offense.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 62	Virginia HB 62 (2024)	bill		enacted	Ellen H. Campbell	4	53	13	2023-12-22	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4e5194ee-9b1e-425b-8c27-85f91b6e6550	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB62	2727c45f953a28272a395236e863ecb474ff573e7e5f51f09902c6394a30fd25	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 62 (2024) — Local animal cruelty registries; any locality may establish, etc., a computerized registry.

Animal Cruelty Conviction List established.Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish no laterthan January 1, 2027, and to maintain the Animal Cruelty ConvictionList and to make the List available to the public on the websiteof the Department of State Police. The bill specifies that the Listinclude the names of persons convicted of certain felony animal crueltyoffenses on or after July 1, 2024. The bill requires persons convictedof any such offense to pay a fee of $50 per conviction to fund themaintenance of the List. The bill also requires the Department toremove a person's name and information from the List 15 years afterits listing if he has no additional felony conviction of any such offense.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0712 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108055D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB62ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102944D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) — 16–6 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (15-Y 7-N) — 15–7 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (81-Y 15-N) — 80–15 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (74-Y 26-N) — 73–26 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N) — 6–4 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 96-N) — 2–95 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellen H. Campbell — primary (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• N. Baxter Ennis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102944D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-22 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB62)
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-09 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House (74-Y 26-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Passage (74-Y 26-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Committee substitute printed 24108055D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB62S1)
• 2024-02-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-03-01 Committee substitute agreed to 24108055D-S1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB62S1 substitution
• 2024-03-01 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Senate substitute rejected by House 24108055D-S1 (2-Y 96-N)
• 2024-03-04 VOTE: REJECTED (2-Y 96-N)
• 2024-03-05 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-05 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 House acceded to request
• 2024-03-06 Conferees appointed by House
• 2024-03-06 Delegates: Tran, Laufer, Campbell
• 2024-03-07 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2024-03-07 Senators: Favola, Pekarsky, Stanley
• 2024-03-08 Amended by conference committee
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (81-Y 15-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (81-Y 15-N)
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB62ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB62ER)
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e5194ee-9b1e-425b-8c27-85f91b6e6550. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).