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Bill Status: Signed into Law |
 | Dissection Choice
Bill Number: VT S. 34 (attached to H. 711)
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Allows students an instructional alternative to dissecting, incubating, capturing, or otherwise harming an animal.
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Bill Status: Died |
| Black Bear Hunting
Bill Number: VT H. 84
HSUS Position: Oppose
Legislature Status: Adjourned
This would allow a property owner to hire an agent to kill a black bear doing damage to his property. The bill would also allow the property owner to sell or give away the carcass of a black bear. |
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Bill Status: Died |
| Bans Coyote Hunting Competitions
Bill Number: VT S. 14
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
This bill proposes to make it illegal to operate or participate in a coyote-hunting competition.
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Bill Status: Died |
| Battery Cages
Bill Number: VT H. 311 & S. 202
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
H. 311 prohibits intensive confinement of egg‑laying hens and directs the state to purchase only cage‑free eggs.
S. 202 directs the state to purchase only cage-free eggs.
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Bill Status: Died |
| Adequate Shelter
Bill Number: VT H. 434
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Specifies requirements for adequate shelter to be provided for pets and livestock to protect them from extreme weather. |
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Bill Status: Signed into Law |
| Civil Violations for Animal Cruelty
Bill Number: VT S. 169 & H. 313
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Permits first offense violations of some provisions of the state’s animal cruelty laws to be charged as civil violations, rather than criminal offenses. A state’s attorney would be allowed to withdraw the complaint in the judicial bureau and file it in the district court if he or she deemed the case more appropriate for criminal proceedings. |
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Bill Status: Died |
| Pet Merchants
Bill Number: VT S. 341
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Provides for the regulation of pet merchants. |
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Bill Status: Died |
| Puppy Mills
Bill Number: VT H. 769
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Regulates commercial dog breeders. |
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