IC
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 1171
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2014
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
AN ACT
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to allow a veterinarian to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice outside of the registered location.
Transporting and dispensing controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice
Section 302(e) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 822(e)) is amended—
by striking
(e)
and inserting (e)(1)
; and
by adding at the end the following:
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a registrant who is a veterinarian shall not be required to have a separate registration in order to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice at a site other than the registrant’s registered principal place of business or professional practice, so long as the site of transporting and dispensing is located in a State where the veterinarian is licensed to practice veterinary medicine and is not a principal place of business or professional practice.
.
Passed the Senate January 8, 2014.
Nancy Erickson,
Secretary