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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 548

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 505 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY STACK, BROWNE, BOSCOLA, COSTA, FONTANA, LOGAN AND
           FERLO, MARCH 19, 2007

        REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
           MARCH 19, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of December 27, 1974 (P.L.995, No.326),
     2     entitled "An act regulating the practice of veterinary
     3     medicine and imposing penalties," further providing for
     4     disciplinary proceedings.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Section 21(11) of the act of December 27, 1974
     8  (P.L.995, No.326), known as the Veterinary Medicine Practice
     9  Act, amended December 9, 2002 (P.L.1370, No.167), is amended to
    10  read:
    11     Section 21.  Grounds for Disciplinary Proceedings.--The board
    12  shall suspend or revoke any license or certificate or otherwise
    13  discipline an applicant, licensee or certificate holder who is
    14  found guilty by the board or by a court of one or more of the
    15  following:
    16     * * *
    17     (11)  Incompetence, gross negligence or other malpractice, or
    18  the departure from, or failure to conform to, the standards of


     1  acceptable and prevailing veterinary medical practice, in which
     2  case actual injury need not be established. Failure of a
     3  licensee to perform prescreening of an animal, such as
     4  conducting a blood test, prior to use of a drug, if the
     5  prescreening is recommended by the drug manufacturer, may be
     6  evidence in a disciplinary action at the discretion of the
     7  board. The board may consider the withholding of consent for any
     8  prescreening by the animal owner.
     9     * * *
    10     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.














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