04/08/2008 04:00 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE

         CSHB 297(RLS)-PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
4:16:52 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR ELLIS announced  CSHB 297(RLS) to be  up for consideration.                                                               
He  said  it was  the  second  hearing  and  there was  no  known                                                               
opposition.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  MARK NEUMAN,  sponsor  of HB  297, recapped  that                                                               
this  bill  is  supported  by  the  Alaska  Board  of  Veterinary                                                               
Examiners, the  Alaska State Veterinary Medical  Association, the                                                               
Division of Corporations and  Division of Occupational Licensing.                                                               
It  had controversial  issues, but  those were  taken out  and it                                                               
updated others  from 1989. It's  extremely important to  get more                                                               
vets up here.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR ELLIS  asked him to  let him know  when the board  takes up                                                               
the issue of reporting of cruelty  to animals and tell him how it                                                               
was handled.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE NEUMAN  said that  they put it  on their  June 13,                                                               
2008 agenda, at the same time  the legislature will be sitting in                                                               
Juneau.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  STEVENS moved  to report  CSHB  297(RLS) from  committee                                                               
with  individual  recommendations  and attached  fiscal  note(s).                                                               
There were no objections and it was so ordered.