New York A 1945: Authorizes veterinarians to provide free veterinary care services to individuals in shelters to receive mandatory continuing education credit

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A01945 Summary:

BILL NOA01945 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06821

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SPONSORRosenthal

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Amd §6704-a, Ed L

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

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BILL NOA01945 

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01/14/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1945

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. 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.
 LBD00740-01-5

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