Reportable animal disease list.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0041

ENROLLED ACT NO. 15, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FIFTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2005 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to contagious and infectious diseases among livestock; amending the requirements for reporting contagious and infectious diseases; providing for the establishment of a list of reportable animal diseases; providing for confidentiality of information; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 11
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102 is amended to read:

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102.

Duty of public to report diseases to state veterinarian; list of reportable diseases; failure to comply or obstruction of duty; penalties.

(a)

Any person
or government entity
who knows or suspects that there is
upon his premises
any contagious or infectious
reportable
disease among
domestic
animals
owned by or under their jurisdiction or any veterinarian who knows or suspects any reportable contagious or infectious disease on any premises or in any animal
, shall immediately report the same to the state veterinarian.
The state veterinarian shall establish and manage a list of
reportable diseases for any contagious or infectious disease deemed by the state veterinarian to be a threat to domestic animals. During development of this list the state veterinarian shall consult with the Wyoming game and fish department's supervisor of veterinary research services.
Information collected in response to the list of reportable diseases shall be considered confidential proprietary information. Access to any information collected under the list of reportable diseases shall be limited to the person who reported the disease and the state veterinarian, except that the state veterinarian may at his discretion notify any of the following:

(i)

The Wyoming livestock board;

(ii)

The state veterinary laboratory;

(iii)

The Wyoming game and fish director only if the disease threatens wildlife;

(iv)

Any
state or federal inspector, public health official or peace officer who is actively involved in the investigation of an outbreak or suspected outbreak of the contagious or infectious disease;

(v)

Owners of possible contact animals; or

(vi)

Adjacent landowners.

(b)

The state veterinarian when he deems it to be in the best interests of animal health, or the state public health officer when he deems it to be in the best interests of human public health, may release to the public any information collected under subsection (a) of this section, except the identity of any individual who reported the disease or whose animals may have contracted the disease.

(c)

A failure to report, or any attempt to conceal the existence of the disease or to willfully or maliciously obstruct or resist the veterinarian in the discharge of his duty is a misdemeanor.
Any person who willfully or maliciously falsifies a report to the state veterinarian is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Any person convicted of any of the above acts or omissions shall be punished as provided in W.S. 11
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Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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