Authorizes veterinarians to provide free veterinary care services to individuals in shelters as self-instructional coursework to receive credit for their continuing education requirement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1945
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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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.
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