republic-os/legislation/us/states/vt/2025-2026/h-841.md

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Bill	An act relating to miscellaneous animal welfare procedures	An act relating to miscellaneous animal welfare procedures	us/states/vt	Vermont General Assembly	2025-2026	H 841	Vermont H 841 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Chea Waters Evans	9	45	0	2026-01-30	2026-05-29	openstates	ocd-bill/d67a6b63-a614-4d59-a3c4-232900fa9c01	http://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/loadBillDetailedStatus/2026/1501	eedd7eaecca783a3f5b8a2f466725b296d052b66742ec03c73d0de7da4fd80a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-vt

Vermont H 841 (2025-2026) — An act relating to miscellaneous animal welfare procedures

Version chain

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

1. As Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act Summary (committee substitute) — source
3. As Enacted (committee substitute) — source
4. As Passed By the House (Official) (committee substitute) — source
5. As Passed By the House (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source
6. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Official) (committee substitute) — source
7. As Passed by Both House and Senate (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Proposal of Amendment (Official) (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Proposal of Amendment (Unofficial) (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Chea Waters Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-30 Read first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2026-02-03 Rep. LaLonde of South Burlington moved that the Committee on Judiciary be relieved of the bill and that the same be committed to the Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs, which was agreed to
• 2026-02-26 Pending entry on Notice Calendar, referred to Committee on Ways and Means per Rule 35(a)
• 2026-03-12 Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2026-03-13 Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment
• 2026-03-13 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-03-13 Rep. Waters Evans of Charlotte reported for the Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs
• 2026-03-13 Rep. Masland of Thetford recommended for the Committee on Ways and Means
• 2026-03-13 Report of Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs amended as recommended by Committee on Ways and Means
• 2026-03-13 Report of Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs, as amended, agreed to
• 2026-03-13 Rep. Branagan of Georgia moved to commit the resolution to the Committee Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry, which was disagreed to
• 2026-03-13 Third Reading ordered reading-3
• 2026-03-17 Action Calendar: Third Reading reading-3
• 2026-03-17 Rep. Bartholomew of Hartland and Nelson of Derby moved to amend the bill, which was agreed to
• 2026-03-17 Read third time and passed reading-3
• 2026-03-19 Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary introduction
• 2026-04-01 Committee on Judiciary relieved; bill committed to Committee on Government Operations on motion of Senator Hashim
• 2026-05-08 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2026-05-08 Second Reading reading-2
• 2026-05-08 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Government Operations amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-08 Referred to Committee on Finance per Senate Rule 31
• 2026-05-15 Entered on Notice Calendar
• 2026-05-15 Second Reading reading-2
• 2026-05-15 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Government Operations amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-15 Favorable report by Committee on Finance committee-passage
• 2026-05-19 New Business/Second Reading reading-2
• 2026-05-19 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Government Operations amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-19 Favorable report by Committee on Finance committee-passage
• 2026-05-20 Unfinished Business/Second Reading reading-2
• 2026-05-20 Favorable report with proposal of amendment by Committee on Government Operations amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-20 Favorable report by Committee on Finance committee-passage
• 2026-05-20 Read 2nd time, reported favorably with proposal of amendment by Senator Collamore for Committee on Government Operations amendment-introduction, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2
• 2026-05-20 Reported favorably by Senator Gulick for Committee on Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-05-20 Proposal of amendment by Committee on Government Operations agreed to amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-20 3rd reading ordered
• 2026-05-21 New Business/Third Reading reading-3
• 2026-05-21 Read 3rd time & passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment amendment-introduction, reading-3
• 2026-05-21 Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Baruth passage
• 2026-05-21 Senate Message: Passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-21 Rules suspended and taken up for immediate consideration, pending entry on Notice Calendar, as moved by Rep. McCoy of Poultney
• 2026-05-21 Senate proposal of amendment concurred in amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-26 House message: House concurred in Senate proposal of amendment amendment-introduction
• 2026-05-29 Delivered to the Governor on June 2, 2026 passage
• 2026-05-29 Signed by Governor on June 8, 2026 executive-signature
• 2026-05-29 House message: Governor approved bill on June 8, 2026

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d67a6b63-a614-4d59-a3c4-232900fa9c01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Vermont legislature records).