An overview of animal welfare legislation and regulation for laboratory animals, as well as actions the AVMA is taking to improve it.

The AVMA supports passage of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510). In addition to giving the Health and Human

The Department of Agriculture has grown from a collector and distributor of farming information during the 1860s to, today, a

  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…

      AVMA State Public Policy Symposium addresses legislative, court, public opinion battles    posted December 18, 2009   Ralph Johnson,…

AVMA Welfare Focus Newsletter - Legislative and Regulatory News - December 2012 Federal Now that the election season is over, Congress has turned…

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

Once again, Congress is eyeing implementing reforms in North American horse racing, but, this time, it’s looking to an outside

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

State Legislative Update November 2013

The AVMA State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Department recently released a year-end report on more than 1,400 bills that

    State Legislative Update Prepared by Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AVMA Communications Division August 16,…

State Legislative Update Prepared by Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AVMA Communications Division July 12, 2013   …

State Legislative Update for September 2015

Highlights of state legislation passed in 2014 affecting veterinarians and the veterinary profession.

September 2013 State Legislative Update

The 2007 Veterinary State Legislative Mid-Year Report is a new resource now available on the AVMA Web site.

​State Legislative Update Prepared by Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AVMA Communications Division May 15, 2013     State…

State Legislative Update Prepared by Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AVMA Communications Division January 10, 2013     …

Posted on October 15, 2004   Health care costs, frivolous lawsuits key concerns The AVMA was among more than 300 small-business advocates who

State Legislative Update Prepared by Department of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs AVMA Communications Division June 14, 2013    …

The Executive Board approved positions on several veterinary-related bills and prioritized the Association's FY 2012

Food safety, small-business tax relief, and animal well-being during air travel. The AVMA has had something to say to Congress on all these issues.

An agreement between the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers will lead the groups to lobby for a federal law that