republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-804.md

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Bill	Dangerous dog; extending the time for adjudication.	Dangerous dog; extending the time for adjudication. Requires the court, unless good cause is determined by the court,to hold the evidentiary hearing pursuant to the dangerous dog summonswithin 30 days or as soon as practicable from the issuance of thesummons. Under current law, the court is required to hold such hearingnot more than 30 days from the issuance of the summons.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 804	Virginia HB 804 (2024)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	3	26	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/58e3a46c-d84b-4fb9-b5c5-2d5834b3630c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB804	a001b8855841c5f3dab64b5c58155b6e9a76d146774c377bfb0af3027655795e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 804 (2024) — Dangerous dog; extending the time for adjudication.

Dangerous dog; extending the time for adjudication. Requires the court, unless good cause is determined by the court,to hold the evidentiary hearing pursuant to the dangerous dog summonswithin 30 days or as soon as practicable from the issuance of thesummons. Under current law, the court is required to hold such hearingnot more than 30 days from the issuance of the summons.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0145 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB804ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102883D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102883D 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 (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB804)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 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 (15-Y 0-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 (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB804ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB804ER)
• 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
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 145 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0145)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58e3a46c-d84b-4fb9-b5c5-2d5834b3630c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).