Senate Bill sb1654c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1654

    By the Committee on Agriculture; and Senator Baker





    575-1800-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to animal health care services;

  3         amending s. 474.203, F.S.; providing that ch.

  4         474, F.S., relating to veterinary medical

  5         practice, does not apply to a part-time worker

  6         or an independent contractor who is hired by

  7         the owner of an animal or a herd or flock of

  8         animals to provide certain services concerning

  9         such animal, herd, or flock; providing an

10         effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 474.203, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         474.203  Exemptions.--This chapter shall not apply to:

17         (5)(a)  Any person, or the person's regular employee,

18  administering to the ills or injuries of her or his own

19  animals, including, but not limited to, castration, spaying,

20  and dehorning of herd animals, unless title has been

21  transferred or employment provided for the purpose of

22  circumventing this law. This exemption shall not apply to

23  out-of-state veterinarians practicing temporarily in the

24  state. However, only a veterinarian may immunize or treat an

25  animal for diseases which are communicable to humans and which

26  are of public health significance.

27         (b)  A person hired on a part-time or temporary basis,

28  or as an independent contractor, by the owner of an animal or

29  a herd or flock of animals to assist with herd-management and

30  animal-husbandry tasks for herd and flock animals, including

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    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1654
    575-1800-06




 1  castration, dehorning, parasite control, and debeaking, or to

 2  provide manual hand floating of teeth or farriery of equines.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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 5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 6                         Senate Bill 1654

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 8  Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1654 is different from
    Senate Bill 1654 in that it:
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    1.   Deletes certain nonmedical health care services that can
10       be performed by a part-time worker or independent
         contractor who is hired by the owner of an animal or a
11       herd or flock of animals.

12  2.   Deletes language that requires the part-time worker or
         independent contractor to obtain an occupational license,
13       to advise the animal's owner of his or her knowledge of
         the services provided and to refrain from advertising
14       that he or she is a veterinarian.

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