Bill Text: PA SB769 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for grounds for disciplinary proceedings.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-07 - Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE [SB769 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB769-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 783
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 769 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY STACK, FONTANA, BREWSTER, BOSCOLA, LEACH, BROWNE, FERLO AND FARNESE, MARCH 7, 2011
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 7, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 27, 1974 (P.L.995, No.326),
entitled "An act regulating the practice of veterinary
medicine and imposing penalties," further providing for
grounds for disciplinary proceedings.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 21(11) of the act of December 27, 1974
(P.L.995, No.326), known as the Veterinary Medicine Practice
Act, amended December 9, 2002 (P.L.1370, No.167), is amended to
read:
Section 21. Grounds for Disciplinary Proceedings.--The board
shall suspend or revoke any license or certificate or otherwise
discipline an applicant, licensee or certificate holder who is
found guilty by the board or by a court of one or more of the
following:
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(11) Incompetence, gross negligence or other malpractice, or
the departure from, or failure to conform to, the standards of
acceptable and prevailing veterinary medical practice, in which
case actual injury need not be established. Failure of a
licensee to perform prescreening of an animal, such as
conducting a blood test, prior to use of a drug, if the
prescreening is recommended by the drug manufacturer, may be
evidence in a disciplinary action at the discretion of the
board. The board may consider the withholding of consent for any
prescreening by the animal owner.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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