Bill Text: NY A07903 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes veterinarians to provide free veterinary care services to individuals in shelters as self-instructional coursework to receive credit for their continuing education requirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A07903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07903-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7903

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing  veterina-
          rians to provide free veterinary care services to individuals in shel-
          ters to receive mandatory continuing education credit

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of  section  6704-a  of  the
     2  education  law  is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iii) to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (iii) Self-instructional coursework may include the provision of  free
     5  veterinary  care  services  to  individuals  receiving temporary housing
     6  assistance, which shall include but not be limited to, a family shelter,
     7  a shelter for adults, a hotel providing temporary emergency shelter,  an
     8  emergency apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless
     9  youth shelter, or a safe house for refugees, provided that such services
    10  be  administered at practices, facilities and properties that are appro-
    11  priately equipped and staffed to provide such services.  The  department
    12  may offset up to three hours of the requisite number of hours of contin-
    13  uing  education  required  pursuant to this paragraph, at a rate of one-
    14  half of one hour of continuing education for each hour of  free  veteri-
    15  nary care services.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11607-03-3