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2019 SESSION
SB 1604 Cruelty to animals; increases penalty.
Introduced by: Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Cruelty to animals; serious bodily injury; penalty. Provides that any person who tortures, willfully inflicts inhumane injury or pain not connected with bona fide scientific or medical experimentation, or cruelly and unnecessarily beats, maims, or mutilates any dog or cat that is a companion animal whether belonging to him or another and as a direct result causes serious bodily injury to such dog or cat is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Current law requires that the animal die for the person to be guilty of the felony. The bill incorporates SB 1276 and is identical to HB 1874.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104235D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106347D-S1 pdf
- 02/15/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19106830D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1604ER) pdf | impact statements
- 03/18/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments not adopted
- Conference amendments
HISTORY
- 01/09/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104235D
- 01/09/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/17/19 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/19 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/31/19 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106347D-S1
- 01/31/19 Senate: Incorporates SB1276 (Ebbin)
- 02/04/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/19 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/05/19 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 02/05/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/19 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19106347D-S1
- 02/05/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1604S1
- 02/05/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/19 House: Read first time
- 02/08/19 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/19 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/13/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/19 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19106830D-H1
- 02/19/19 House: Read second time
- 02/20/19 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/19 House: Motion to reconsider pass by for the day agreed to
- 02/20/19 House: Read third time
- 02/20/19 House: Committee substitute agreed to 19106830D-H1
- 02/20/19 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1604H1
- 02/20/19 House: Passed House with substitute (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (3-Y 37-N)
- 02/21/19 House: House insisted on substitute
- 02/21/19 House: House requested conference committee
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senators: DeSteph, Spruill, Chafin
- 02/21/19 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/21/19 House: Delegates: Ransone, Bell, Robert B., Mullin
- 02/22/19 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/22/19 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/19 House: Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N)
- 02/22/19 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 1-N)
- 03/07/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1604ER)
- 03/07/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- 03/11/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/18/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/18/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)