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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           680
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SCHIMEL, TITONE, MOYA, ENGLEBRIGHT --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, LUPARDO, ORTIZ -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing free spaying
          and neutering services in lieu of self-instructional course  work  for
          continuing education requirements for veterinarians
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6704-a of the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 328 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  (a)  During  each  triennial  registration period an applicant for
     4  registration shall complete a minimum of forty-five hours of  acceptable
     5  formal  continuing education, a maximum of twenty-two and one-half hours
     6  of which may be self-instructional coursework acceptable to the  depart-
     7  ment.
     8    (i) Self-instructional coursework may include free spaying and neuter-
     9  ing  and  other  veterinary services in conjunction with a municipality,
    10  duly incorporated not-for-profit society for the prevention  of  cruelty
    11  to  animals,  duly  incorporated  humane  society,  or duly incorporated
    12  animal protection association or persons who would otherwise be eligible
    13  under paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section one  hundred  seven-
    14  teen-a  of  the agriculture and markets law, provided that such services
    15  be administered at practices, facilities and properties that are  appro-
    16  priately equipped and staffed to provide such services.
    17    (ii)  The  department  may  offset  up to three hours of the requisite
    18  number of hours of continuing education required pursuant to this  para-
    19  graph  by  the number of free spaying and neutering services rendered by
    20  an applicant, at a rate of one-half of one hour of continuing  education
    21  for  each  hour  of free spaying and neutering services, provided that a
    22  veterinarian shall be required to  provide  follow-up  service  for  any
    23  post-operative  complications  related  to the surgery that arise within
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  twenty-four hours of performing the surgery, and shall also be  required
     2  to complete the core requirements established by the department.
     3    (b)  Any  veterinarian  whose  first  registration  date following the
     4  effective date of this section occurs less than three  years  from  such
     5  effective  date,  but  on  or  after January first, two thousand twelve,
     6  shall complete continuing education hours on a  prorated  basis  at  the
     7  rate  of  one  and  one-quarter hours per month for the period beginning
     8  January first, two thousand twelve up to  the  first  registration  date
     9  thereafter.  A  licensee  who has not satisfied the mandatory continuing
    10  education requirements shall not  be  issued  a  triennial  registration
    11  certificate  by the department and shall not practice unless and until a
    12  conditional registration certificate is issued as provided  in  subdivi-
    13  sion  three  of  this  section, or until he or she has otherwise met the
    14  requirements of this section. The individual  licensee  shall  determine
    15  the  selection  of  courses or programs of study pursuant to subdivision
    16  four of this section.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.