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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8867--A
                                                                Cal. No. 708
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 25, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. MAGEE, SKOUFIS, STIRPE, ZEBROWSKI, BUCHWALD --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and  referred
          to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  -- reported from committee,
          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its place on the order of third reading
 

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of veter-
          inary medicine
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 6701 of the education law, as  amended  by  chapter
     2  234 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  6701.  Definition of practice of veterinary medicine.  The practice
     4  of the profession of  veterinary  medicine  is  defined  as  diagnosing,
     5  treating,  operating, or prescribing for any animal disease, pain, inju-
     6  ry, deformity or dental  or  physical  condition,  or  the  subcutaneous
     7  insertion  of  a  microchip  intended  to be used to identify an animal.
     8  "Animal" includes every living creature except a human being.   Notwith-

     9  standing the foregoing provisions of this section, no provisions of this
    10  section  shall  be  construed to include the floating of equine teeth as
    11  being within the practice of veterinary medicine.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06951-05-4