Bill Text: NY S03959 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03959 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03959-Introduced.html
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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03959 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03959-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3959 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare 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. A veterinarian who prescribes or otherwise provides medica- 7 tion for an animal shall notify the owner of the animal verbally and in 8 writing of the potential risks and side effects of such medication prior 9 to prescribing or providing medication. 10 2. If a veterinarian repackages prescription medication prior to 11 prescribing or otherwise providing such medication, the veterinarian 12 shall provide a copy of the drug manufacturer's warning label or a 13 manufacturer's warning information insert to the owner of the animal. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08453-01-9