VirginiaAnimal Cruelty Conviction List; established.
What it does
Animal Cruelty Conviction List established. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to establish no later than January 1, 2028, and to maintain an Animal Cruelty Conviction List and to make the List publicly available on the Department of State Police's website. The bill specifies that the List include the names of persons convicted of certain felony animal cruelty offenses on or after July 1, 2026.
More detail
The bill requires persons convicted of any such offense to pay a fee of $50 per conviction to fund the maintenance of the List. The bill requires the Department to remove a person's name and information from the List 15 years after its listing if he has no additional felony conviction for any such offense. Finally, the bill directs the Department to develop forms to implement and enforce the provisions of the bill, including the operation and maintenance of the List and the removal of the records of persons who are deceased, whose convictions have been reversed, or who have been pardoned.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Feb 18Left in Committee Courts of JusticeLatest
- Feb 16Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB673)
- Feb 9Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 3-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends laying on the table. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 9House subcommittee offered
- Feb 7Assigned HCJ sub: CriminalMinor
- Feb 4Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)Minor
- Jan 13Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural ResourcesMinor
- Jan 13Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102322DIntroduced