SB498: Gas chambers; prohibits use thereof for euthanizing companion animals.

SENATE BILL NO. 498
Offered January 9, 2008
A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibiting the use of gas chambers.
Patron-- Northam
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3.1-796.77. Disposal of animals by means of decompression chamber and use of gas chamber for companion animals; prohibited.

A. No animal shall be euthanized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by means of a high altitude decompression chamber.

B. No companion animal shall be euthanized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by means of a gas chamber.

2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.