SB 1233: Postsecondary education: veterinary medicine: spay and neuter techniques.

Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law vests the University of California with exclusive jurisdiction in public higher education over instruction in the profession of law and over graduate instruction in the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

This bill would authorize a California veterinary medical school to develop a high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter certification program to be offered as elective coursework to enrolled students, as provided. The bill would require the certification program to also be offered to California-licensed veterinarians and California-registered veterinary technicians, as provided.

The bill would require the certification program to make available to the public low- or no-cost ovariectomies, ovariohysterectomies, or gonadectomies for cats and dogs that are performed by program participants, as provided. The bill would require a California veterinary medical school offering the above-described certification program to triennially publish a public progress report on certification program activities, as specified.