Bill Text: NY S02433 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2433 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions after two years; defines livestock for the purpose of this section.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S02433 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S02433-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2433
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 20, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
         administration  of  rabies  vaccine to livestock and providing for the
         repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
    2  section 89-a to read as follows:
    3    S  89-A.  ADMINISTRATION  OF  RABIES  VACCINE. (1) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
    4  OTHER SECTION OF LAW, ANY LIVESTOCK OWNER MAY DIRECTLY  PURCHASE  KILLED
    5  RABIES  VACCINE  FOR  THE SOLE PURPOSE OF VACCINATING LIVESTOCK OWNED BY
    6  SUCH LIVESTOCK OWNER. LIVESTOCK VACCINATED IN SUCH A MANNER WITHOUT  THE
    7  DIRECT  OR  SUPERVISORY  PARTICIPATION  OF  A  VETERINARIAN  WILL NOT BE
    8  CONSIDERED AS VACCINATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE DEPARTMENT  OF
    9  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS,  OR ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT, AGENCY, OR AGENT OF
   10  THE STATE FOR THE PURPOSES OF MATTERS INVOLVING STATE ACTION  OR  POLICY
   11  TOWARDS LIVESTOCK, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, QUARANTINE IN THE CASE
   12  OF  A  RABIES  OUTBREAK  OR  LOCAL RABIES EMERGENCY, AND ELIGIBILITY FOR
   13  PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR OR ANY COUNTY OR LOCAL FAIR RUN
   14  BY ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  LIVESTOCK VACCI-
   15  NATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR INDEMNIFICATION
   16  FOR RABIES AS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE SIX-A OF THIS  CHAPTER  IF  IT  IS
   17  DETERMINED  THAT  SUCH  VACCINATIONS,  CONDUCTED  WITHOUT  THE DIRECT OR
   18  SUPERVISORY PARTICIPATION OF A VETERINARIAN, CONTRIBUTED TO THE  DAMAGES
   19  TO THE ANIMAL.
   20    (2)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION, THE TERM "LIVESTOCK" SHALL MEAN
   21  CATTLE AND HORSES AND ANY SPECIES OF LIVESTOCK THAT ARE INDICATED ON THE
   22  VACCINE LABEL OR PACKAGE INSERT. THE TERM  "LIVESTOCK"  SHALL  NOT  MEAN
   23  DOGS  AND  CATS.  ALL  KILLED  RABIES  VACCINES  MUST BE ADMINISTERED IN
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00491-01-9
       S. 2433                             2
    1  ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPECIFICATIONS  OF  THE  PRODUCT  LABEL  OR  PACKAGE
    2  INSERT.
    3    S  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    4  deemed repealed 2 years after such effective date.