VirginiaHunting dogs; releasing on state or local roadway, hunting, fishing, and trapping special license.
What it does
Releasing of hunting dogs; state or local roadway; hunting, fishing, and trapping special license; penalty. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for the release of hunting dogs on or within 15 feet of the edge of a roadway owned or maintained by the Department of Transportation or a locality and provides that a second or subsequent offense is a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill allows a court to prohibit any person who released hunting dogs on or within 15 feet of the edge of a roadway owned or maintained by the Department or locality from hunting, trapping, or fishing in the Commonwealth for a period of up to five years.
More detail
The bill permits the stopping of a vehicle on a highway for the retrieval of a companion animal from a highway or area adjacent to a highway. The bill allows certain people such as a landowner and other people associated with such landowner, stockholder, tenant, or guest of the landowner in certain circumstances, to apply for a special license to hunt, fish, and trap exclusively on a landowner's property in lieu of other hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses required by state law.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Feb 3Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 4-N)Latest
- Vote recorded Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 28Assigned HACNR sub: Rural AffairsMinor
- Jan 13Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural ResourcesMinor
- Jan 13Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102612DIntroduced
- Feb 3Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (10-Y 4-N)Latest