Webinar: Certificates of Veterinary Inspection for Imports into Canada New Canadian regulations require import permits and veterinary certificates to…

A Senate subcommittee recently held a hearing about a controversial bill aimed at regulating puppy mills by bringing federal oversight to large-scale…

A New York Times story exposing alleged abuses at an agricultural research facility has prompted legislation to expand federal animal

Recently defeated legislation in California would have let unsupervised nonveterinarians perform services to remove deposits from

During the past few years, the regulation of high-volume dog breeders and dealers has become one of the most prominent issues in animal legislation

Update: The U.S. Department of Labor on December 2 appealed Judge Mazzant's decision to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.   With…

State Legislative Update January 2014

monthly legislative update July 2014

  One bill's language partly adopted from AVMA model act   posted July 18, 2010   Crush videos, aquaculture, and puppy mills are just some of the…

Breed-specific legislation (BSL) targets specific breeds of dogs that are wrongly thought to all be dangerous – most frequently pit bull types –

The AVMA has adopted a scoring system that will enable the Association to more effectively address federal legislative and regulative proposals

Labor Department offers webinars to explain new rules A new rule finalized last week by the U.S. Department of Labor requires time-and-a-half overtime…

Veterinary prescription mandates are bad for veterinarians, and bad for our patients. This legislation interferes in the veterinarian-client-patient…

The AVMA Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs recently released a report on several thousand bills and regulations that

Find information about the laws, relief programs, and regulations enacted to assist veterinary small business owners, veterinarians, and veterinary…

With 88 percent of veterinary students borrowing from federal student loan programs, according to the 2016 AVMA & AAVMC Report on the Market for…

State Legislative Update for February 2015

The AVMA State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Department recently released a year-end report on several thousand bills and

​State legislatures passed a number of bills in 2014 that impact animals and veterinary medicine, and 18 veterinarians are serving in

January 2015 AVMA State Legislative and regulatory update

State Legislative Update for April 2015

State Legislative Update for September 2015

This report looks at state legislation and regulatory actions from the first half of 2015 that impact veterinary medicine.

August AVMA state legisaltive and regulatory update.

State legislative update for March 2015