Bill Text: NY A01121 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1121

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions after two years; defines livestock for the purpose of this section.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - reference changed to agriculture [A01121 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01121-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1121

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          administration  of  rabies  vaccine to livestock and providing for the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 89-a to read as follows:
     3    §  89-a.  Administration  of  rabies  vaccine. (1) Notwithstanding any
     4  other section of law, any livestock owner may directly  purchase  killed
     5  rabies  vaccine  for  the sole purpose of vaccinating livestock owned by
     6  such livestock owner. Livestock vaccinated in such a manner without  the
     7  direct  or  supervisory  participation  of  a  veterinarian  will not be
     8  considered as vaccinated by the department of health, the department  of
     9  agriculture  and  markets,  or any other department, agency, or agent of
    10  the state for the purposes of matters involving state action  or  policy
    11  towards livestock, including, but not limited to, quarantine in the case
    12  of  a  rabies  outbreak  or  local rabies emergency, and eligibility for
    13  participation in the New York state fair or any county or local fair run
    14  by any political subdivision of the state of New York.  Livestock vacci-
    15  nated pursuant to this section shall not be eligible for indemnification
    16  for rabies as provided for in article six-A of this  chapter  if  it  is
    17  determined  that  such  vaccinations,  conducted  without  the direct or
    18  supervisory participation of a veterinarian, contributed to the  damages
    19  to the animal.
    20    (2)  For  purposes  of  this  section, the term "livestock" shall mean
    21  cattle and horses and any species of livestock that are indicated on the
    22  vaccine label or package insert. The term  "livestock"  shall  not  mean
    23  dogs  and  cats.  All  killed  rabies  vaccines  must be administered in
    24  accordance with the specifications  of  the  product  label  or  package
    25  insert.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    27  deemed repealed 2 years after such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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