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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 541: Providing for veterinary medicine, including the care of animals under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

GENERAL.10).11). A person who practices veterinary medicine without a valid license or permit is guilty of a fraudulent practice. The bill provides definitions of terms used throughout the Code chapter and creates a new subchapter authorizing certain individuals to provide authorized veterinary medical services to animals in a manner that would otherwise constitute the practice of veterinary medicine, so long as the authorized veterinary medical services are provided under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian (supervising veterinarian).

Sponsors

Agriculture (companion To Lsb 1917hv By Committee on Agriculture) committee

Cost

Can’t be estimated

House File 670 establishes a new simple misdemeanor and adds practicing veterinary medicine without a license or permit to the fraudulent practice violations. The fiscal impact cannot be estimated due to a lack of existing conviction data. Table 2 below shows …

Lobbying · 6 for, 0 against

For: Animal Rescue League Iowa, Inc.; Iowa Cattlemen's Association; Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; Iowa Pork Producers Association; Iowa Veterinary Medical Association; The Humane Society of the United States

In plain words

  1. March 6, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. March 6, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 10, 2023Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. April 24, 2023Withdrawn

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF541