http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB995There is absolutely no reason to require a tracking dog license, except to make someone with a tracking dog business special and to keep other hunters from using their dogs. This bill also makes a tracker with a license special because he can carry a "weapon" while the hunter that shot the animal cannot. This does not make sense except to make the tracker special (money maker).
Almost any dog can be a tracking dog with little or no training. Almost every hunter has a dog that can be used for tracking wounded deer.
Instead, let the hunter carry the weapon used to shoot the animal while tracking with a dog.