BILL NUMBER: AB 1980	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to amend Section 4827 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1980, as introduced, Hayashi. Veterinary medicine.
   Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, provides for
the regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine by the
Veterinary Medical Board and prohibits that practice without a
license. Existing law specifies that the act does not prohibit an
employee of an animal control shelter or humane society from
administering sodium pentobarbital for euthanasia of specified
animals if the employee has received proper training in that
administration.
   This bill would provide that the act also does not prohibit that
employee from administering first aid to specified animals if he or
she has received proper training in that administration.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4827 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4827.  Nothing in this chapter prohibits  any 
 a  person from:
   (a) Practicing veterinary medicine as a bona fide owner of one's
own animals. This exemption applies to the following:
   (1) The owner's bona fide employees.
   (2) Any person assisting the owner, provided that the practice is
performed gratuitously.
   (b) Lay testing of poultry by the whole blood agglutination test.
For purposes of this section, "poultry" means flocks of avian species
maintained for food production, including, but not limited to,
chickens, turkeys, and exotic fowl.
   (c) Making any determination as to the status of pregnancy,
sterility, or infertility upon livestock, equine, or food animals at
the time an animal is being inseminated, providing no charge is made
for this determination.
   (d) Administering sodium pentobarbital for euthanasia of  , or
first aid to,  sick, injured, homeless, or unwanted domestic
pets or animals without the presence of a veterinarian when the
person is an employee of an animal control shelter and its agencies
or humane society and has received proper training in the
administration of sodium pentobarbital  or first aid   ,
as applicable,  for these purposes.