A11277 • 2025

Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter

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Sponsor: Paula Kay
Last action: 2026-05-04
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter

Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter under certain circumstances.

What This Bill Does

Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter under certain circumstances.

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Bill History

2026-05-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter
Allows certain unlicensed individuals to provide care to animals in the custody or possession of an animal shelter under certain circumstances.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11277

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 4, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing certain unli-
          censed  individuals  to  provide  care  to  animals  in the custody or
          possession of an animal shelter

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  6713 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. AN UNLICENSED PERSON ACTING UNDER DIRECT OR INDIRECT SUPERVISION OF
     4  A VETERINARIAN LICENSED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE  MAY  PROVIDE  CARE  TO
     5  ANIMALS IN THE CUSTODY OR POSSESSION OF AN ANIMAL SHELTER, AS DEFINED IN
     6  SUBDIVISION  SIX  OF  SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY OF THE AGRICULTURE AND
     7  MARKETS  LAW,  INCLUDING  ANIMALS  SUBJECT  TO  THE  REDEMPTION  PERIODS
     8  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SECTION  ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN OF THE AGRICULTURE AND
     9  MARKETS LAW, PROVIDED THAT:
    10    A. THE INDIVIDUAL IS PERFORMING TASKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A WRITTEN  OR
    11  VERBAL PROTOCOL PROVIDED BY THE SUPERVISING VETERINARIAN; AND
    12    B. THE SUPERVISING VETERINARIAN HAS DETERMINED THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAS
    13  RECEIVED SUFFICIENT AND PROPER TRAINING TO PERFORM THOSE SPECIFIC TASKS.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15628-01-6