HOD resolutions and proposed bylaw amendments
Resolutions and bylaw amendments considered by the AVMA House of Delegates in 2025. Resolutions and bylaw amendments are numbered in chronological order within the calendar year, based on the order in which they are received.
Summer session: July 2025
Resolutions and proposed bylaw amendments considered by the AVMA House of Delegates during the summer session in July 2025:
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution 9 – Pediatric sterilization of dogs, cats and rabbits
- Resolution 10 – Therapeutic pet food health claims
- Resolution 11 – Sow housing
- Resolution 12 – Declawing of domestic cats
- Resolution 13 – Pain in animals
- Resolution 14 – Model veterinary practice act
- Resolution 15 – Mitigating hazards in the veterinary workplace – Pending waiver of prior notice
Winter session: January 2025
Resolutions and proposed bylaw amendments considered by the AVMA House of Delegates during the winter session in January 2025:
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution 1 – Rules for AVMA officer election campaigns
- Resolution 2 – Evidence-based biosecurity
- Resolution 3 – New policy endorsing research, production, and sales of cellular agriculture animal protein products for food
- Resolution 4 – Revised policy on removal of antlers (velveting) – Pending waiver of prior notice
- Resolution 5 – Annual membership dues increase – Pending waiver of prior notice
- Resolution 6 – Revised policy on complementary, alternative, and integrative veterinary medicine – Pending waiver of prior notice
- Resolution 7 – New policy on license by endorsement – Pending waiver of prior notice
- Resolution 8 – Revised policy on guidelines for pet ownership – Pending waiver of prior notice
Veterinary Information Forum – topics
- Current status of accreditation in veterinary education
- Supporting rural veterinarians