Senate Bill sb1654c2

    Florida Senate - 2006                    CS for CS for SB 1654

    By the Committees on Regulated Industries; Agriculture; and
    Senator Baker




    580-2260-06

  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 for

10         retroactive application; providing an effective

11         date.

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

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

16  Statutes, is amended to read:

17         474.203  Exemptions.--This chapter shall not apply to:

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

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

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

21  and dehorning of herd animals, unless title has been

22  transferred or employment provided for the purpose of

23  circumventing this law. This exemption shall not apply to

24  out-of-state veterinarians practicing temporarily in the

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

26  animal for diseases which are communicable to humans and which

27  are of public health significance.

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

29  or as an independent contractor, by an owner to assist with

30  herd management and animal husbandry tasks for herd and flock

31  animals, including castration, dehorning, parasite control,

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    Florida Senate - 2006                    CS for CS for SB 1654
    580-2260-06




 1  and debeaking, or a person hired on a part-time or temporary

 2  basis or as an independent contractor by the owner to provide

 3  farriery and manual hand floating of teeth on equines.

 4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 5  law and applies retroactively to January 1, 2006.

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 7          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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10  The CS/CS exempts a person hired on a part-time basis or
    temporary basis or as an independent contractor by the owner
11  to provide manual hand floating of teeth or farriery of
    equines from the provisions of the Florida Veterinary Practice
12  Act, Ch. 474, F.S.

13  The CS/CS also deletes the reference to the term "of an animal
    or a herd or flock of animals" from the description of owner.
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    The CS/CS provides for retroactive application of this act to
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