republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-907.md

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Bill	Animal testing facility operated by a state agency; nonhuman primates, care and treatment.	Animal testing facility operated by a state agency; nonhuman primates. Requires any animal testing facility operated by a state agency that no longer has need for a nonhuman primate, as defined in the bill, in its possession to consider options for and determine the appropriate care and treatment of such nonhuman primate in consultation with the facility's attending veterinarian, which options shall include offering for release such nonhuman primate to a certified sanctuary, defined in the bill. The bill allows an animal testing facility to enter into an agreement with the certified sanctuary to implement the release of such nonhuman primate.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 907	Virginia SB 907 (2025)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	5	36	7	2025-01-05	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/53c7a130-e62e-452a-84af-df8cd2ad5aef	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB907	e0a9e48e6705dee6220eb967f86c38d3d5367abdc4f9161ad9a10331499c78c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 907 (2025) — Animal testing facility operated by a state agency; nonhuman primates, care and treatment.

Animal testing facility operated by a state agency; nonhuman primates. Requires any animal testing facility operated by a state agency that no longer has need for a nonhuman primate, as defined in the bill, in its possession to consider options for and determine the appropriate care and treatment of such nonhuman primate in consultation with the facility's attending veterinarian, which options shall include offering for release such nonhuman primate to a certified sanctuary, defined in the bill. The bill allows an animal testing facility to enter into an agreement with the certified sanctuary to implement the release of such nonhuman primate.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Education and Health Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) — 17–5 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Education and Health (12-Y 1-N) — 12–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N) — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (75-Y 21-N) — 75–21 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101988D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned ACNR sub: Companion Animals referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 1-N) referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Rereferred to Education and Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB907)
• 2025-01-21 Assigned Education sub: Health referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-27 Education and Health Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-01-27 Printed as engrossed 25101988D-E
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB907)
• 2025-02-07 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 2-N)
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Passed House (75-Y 21-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB907ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB907)
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 437 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0437)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53c7a130-e62e-452a-84af-df8cd2ad5aef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).