Bill Text: NY A06502 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes Buoy's law; requires veterinarians to notify owners of potential risks and side effects of medication verbally or through electronic means prior to prescribing or otherwise providing medication to an animal; allows the client, or his or her agent, to decide whether or not to have a consultation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A06502 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06502-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6502--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, SOLAGES, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, JEAN-PIERRE, PICHARDO, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to estab- lishing Buoy's law relating to requiring veterinarians to notify owners of potential risks and side effects of medication prior to prescribing or otherwise providing medication to an animal The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Buoy's law". 3 § 2. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 4 section 381 to read as follows: 5 § 381. Notification by veterinarian of risks and side effects of medi- 6 cation. 1. Each time a veterinarian initially prescribes, dispenses, or 7 provides a medication to an animal patient in an outpatient setting, the 8 veterinarian shall offer to provide, in person or through electronic 9 means, to the client responsible for the animal, or his or her agent, a 10 consultation that includes the following information: 11 (a) The name and description of the medication; 12 (b) Route of administration, dosage form, dosage, duration of drug 13 therapy, the duration of the effects of the drug, and the common severe 14 adverse effects associated with the use of the drug; 15 (c) Any special directions for proper use and storage; 16 (d) Actions to be taken in the event of a missed dose; and 17 (e) If requested and where available, a veterinarian shall provide 18 documentation of precautions and relevant warnings provided by the 19 drug's manufacturer. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08453-07-9A. 6502--A 2 1 2. The client, or an agent designated by the client, shall decide 2 whether the consultation be provided in person or through electronic 3 means. 4 3. It shall be noted in the medical record of the animal patient if 5 the consultation described in this section is provided or declined by 6 the client or his or her agent. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 8 it shall have become a law.