Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 742
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/09/2014           .                                
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    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 50 and 51
    4  insert:
    5         (7) Under no circumstances may any Medication may not be
    6  administered closer than 24 hours before prior to the officially
    7  scheduled post time of a race except as provided for in this
    8  section.
    9         (a) Furosemide is the only medication that may be
   10  administered within 24 hours before the officially scheduled
   11  post time. However, furosemide may not be administered within 4
   12  hours before the officially scheduled race time. The division
   13  shall adopt rules setting conditions for the use of furosemide
   14  to treat exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.
   15         (b) The division shall adopt rules setting conditions for
   16  the use of prednisolone sodium succinate, but under no
   17  circumstances may furosemide or prednisolone sodium succinate be
   18  administered closer than 4 hours prior to the officially
   19  scheduled post time for the race.
   20         (c)Before January 1, 2015, the division shall adopt rules
   21  that establish the definitions of prohibited substances and the
   22  setting conditions for the use of controlled therapeutic
   23  medications. Controlled therapeutic medications may include only
   24  the specific medications and concentrations allowed in
   25  biological samples that have been approved by the Association of
   26  Racing Commissioners International, Inc., as controlled
   27  therapeutic medications phenylbutazone and synthetic
   28  corticosteroids; in no case, except as provided in paragraph
   29  (b), shall these substances be given closer than 24 hours prior
   30  to the officially scheduled post time of a race. Oral
   31  corticosteroids are prohibited except when prescribed by a
   32  licensed veterinarian and reported to the division on forms
   33  prescribed by the division.
   34         (c)(d)Nothing in This section does not shall be
   35  interpreted to prohibit the use of vitamins, minerals, or
   36  naturally occurring substances if they do not exceed so long as
   37  none exceeds the normal physiological concentration in a race
   38  day specimen.
   39         (e) The division may, by rule, establish acceptable levels
   40  of permitted medications and shall select the appropriate
   41  biological specimens by which the administration of permitted
   42  medication is monitored.
   43         (8)(a) Under no circumstances may any medication be
   44  administered within 24 hours before the officially scheduled
   45  post time of the race except as provided in this section.
   46         (b) As an exception to this section, if the division first
   47  determines that the use of furosemide, phenylbutazone, or
   48  prednisolone sodium succinate in horses is in the best interest
   49  of racing, the division may adopt rules allowing such use. Any
   50  rules allowing the use of furosemide, phenylbutazone, or
   51  prednisolone sodium succinate in racing must set the conditions
   52  for such use. Under no circumstances may a rule be adopted which
   53  allows the administration of furosemide or prednisolone sodium
   54  succinate within 4 hours before the officially scheduled post
   55  time for the race. Under no circumstances may a rule be adopted
   56  which allows the administration of phenylbutazone or any other
   57  synthetic corticosteroid within 24 hours before the officially
   58  scheduled post time for the race. Any administration of
   59  synthetic corticosteroids is limited to parenteral routes. Oral
   60  administration of synthetic corticosteroids is expressly
   61  prohibited. If this paragraph is unconstitutional, it is
   62  severable from the remainder of this section.
   63         (c) The division shall, by rule, establish acceptable
   64  levels of permitted medications and shall select the appropriate
   65  biological specimen by which the administration of permitted
   66  medications is monitored.
   67         (8)(9)(a) The division may conduct a postmortem examination
   68  of any animal that is injured at a permitted racetrack while in
   69  training or in competition and that subsequently expires or is
   70  destroyed. The division may conduct a postmortem examination of
   71  any animal that expires while housed at a permitted racetrack,
   72  association compound, or licensed kennel or farm. Trainers and
   73  owners must shall be requested to comply with this paragraph as
   74  a condition of licensure.
   75         (b) The division may take possession of the animal upon
   76  death for postmortem examination. The division may submit blood,
   77  urine, other bodily fluid specimens, or other tissue specimens
   78  collected during a postmortem examination for testing by the
   79  division laboratory or its designee. Upon completion of the
   80  postmortem examination, the carcass must be returned to the
   81  owner or disposed of at the owner’s option.
   82         (9)(10) The presence of a prohibited substance in an
   83  animal, found by the division laboratory in a bodily fluid
   84  specimen collected after the race or during the postmortem
   85  examination of the animal, which breaks down during a race
   86  constitutes a violation of this section.
   87         (10)(11) The cost of postmortem examinations, testing, and
   88  disposal must be borne by the division.
   89         (11)(12) The division shall adopt rules, laboratory
   90  standards, and penalties to implement this section. The rules
   91  may include a classification system for prohibited substances
   92  and a corresponding penalty schedule for violations.
   93         (12)(13)Except as specifically modified by statute or by
   94  rules of the division, The most recent Uniform Classification
   95  Guidelines for Foreign Substances, revised February 14, 1995, as
   96  promulgated by the Association of Racing Commissioners
   97  International, Inc., is hereby adopted by reference as the
   98  uniform classification system for class IV and V medications.
   99         (14) The division shall utilize only the thin layer
  100  chromatography (TLC) screening process to test for the presence
  101  of class IV and V medications in samples taken from racehorses
  102  except when thresholds of a class IV or class V medication have
  103  been established and are enforced by rule. Once a sample has
  104  been identified as suspicious for a class IV or class V
  105  medication by the TLC screening process, the sample will be sent
  106  for confirmation by and through additional testing methods. All
  107  other medications not classified by rule as a class IV or class
  108  V agent shall be subject to all forms of testing available to
  109  the division.
  110         (15) The division may implement by rule medication levels
  111  recommended by the University of Florida College of Veterinary
  112  Medicine developed pursuant to an agreement between the Division
  113  of Pari-mutuel Wagering and the University of Florida College of
  114  Veterinary Medicine. The University of Florida College of
  115  Veterinary Medicine may provide written notification to the
  116  division that it has completed research or review on a
  117  particular drug pursuant to the agreement and when the College
  118  of Veterinary Medicine has completed a final report of its
  119  findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the division.
  120         (13)(16) The testing medium for phenylbutazone in horses
  121  shall be serum, and the division may collect up to six full 15
  122  milliliter blood tubes for each horse being sampled.
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  124  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
  125  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
  126         Delete lines 13 - 14
  127  and insert:
  128  Section 1. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (6) of section
  129  550.2415, Florida Statutes, and subsections (7) through (16) of
  130  that section are amended, to read:
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  133  And the title is amended as follows:
  134         Delete line 8
  135  and insert:
  136         false statements on an injury form; revising the
  137         rulemaking authority of the division; revising the
  138         authorized use of certain medications and testing
  139         methods; providing an