STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6269

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 31, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of veter-
          inary medicine

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  6701 of the education law, as amended by chapter
     2  268 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 6701. Definition of practice of veterinary medicine. The practice of
     4  the profession of veterinary medicine is defined as  diagnosing,  treat-
     5  ing,  operating,  or  prescribing  for any animal disease, pain, injury,
     6  deformity or dental or physical condition, or the subcutaneous insertion
     7  of a microchip intended to be used to  identify  an  animal.    "Animal"
     8  includes  every  living  creature except a human being.  Notwithstanding
     9  the foregoing provisions of this section, no provisions of this  section
    10  shall be construed to include the floating of equine teeth or the use of
    11  non-medical  Food  and  Drug  Administration class I registered devices,
    12  including but not limited to pulsed  electromagnetic  field  therapy  as
    13  being within the practice of veterinary medicine.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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