Board publishes proposed licensing rule, lowers several fees and handles dozens of enforcement dockets

At its meeting, the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners advanced several regulatory and administrative items for public notice, completed officer elections and committee appointments, and disposed of a number of enforcement cases.

The board voted to publish proposed changes to Title 22, Part 24, Chapter 571 (licensing) in the Texas Register. Michelle Phelps presented the drafting process and said staff and the rules committee had worked with TDLR to modernize and consolidate language. The board approved the proposal for publication with non-substantive/grammatical edits to be submitted to staff by a stated deadline.

The board also authorized publication of a revised fee schedule (Title 22, Part 24, §577.15) that reduces several licensing fees from the temporary higher levels put in place to fund the agency’s database build. Examples announced by staff: veterinarian initial application fee reduced (from prior level noted in packet), LVT initial application reduced (from 65 to 58), LVT…