Bill Text - HB1526 (2024)

(New Title) relative to a conditional veterinary license for graduates of non-AVMA-accredited colleges of veterinary medicine.


Revision: Oct. 12, 2023, 8:11 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2552.0

08/02

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians educated in other countries.

 

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COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill enables the board of veterinary medicine to issue a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians who are educated in other countries.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2552.0

08/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians educated in other countries.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Conditional Licensure; Foreign-Educated Veterinarians.  Amend RSA 332-B:11 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV. The board may issue a conditional license to a foreign-educated veterinarian currently in the process of obtaining an ECFVG certificate who has completed all steps of the ECFVG except the clinical proficiency examination (CPE), on the conditions that the veterinarian has applied to take (or retake) and is in the queue for the CPE, or has taken the CPE and is awaiting results, or has passed the CPE and has applied to write the New Hampshire examination, and providing such person is employed by and practices the profession under the supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian practicing in the state. A conditional license may be summarily revoked by a majority vote of the board.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.