'25-'26 Renewal Cycle Opens July 1st, 2025 -- Click for More Details
’25-’26 Renewal Cycle Opens July 1st!
If you have not done so in the past three months, you will be required to reset your login credentials to access the LBVM License Portal.
How to Reset Login Credentials for LBVM License Portal.
The annual renewal of licenses and certificates occurs during the regular renewal period of July 1st through September 30th. Please log into the LBVM License Portal to check the expiration date of your license or certificate. If your expiration date is September 30th, 2025, then you must complete the ’25-’26 renewal process starting July 1st. All license and certificate renewals – which includes the submission of CE activity and payment of all fees – must be completed through the LBVM License Portal. Please visit our Renewal Info page at www.lsbvm.org/renewal and carefully read through the renewal instructions. Paper copies of renewal form are not available and cannot be mailed any longer.
LBVM Mission
The LBVM was originally created within the Department of Health and Hospitals to promote the public health, safety and welfare by safeguarding the peoples of the state of Louisiana from incompetent and dishonest practices of veterinary medicine; to encourage more effective utilization of the skills of licensed veterinarians for the health and welfare of animal patients in the delegating of certain veterinary health care tasks to qualified Registered Veterinary Technicians; and to provide the most humane restraint, capture and death possible for unwanted, diseased, dangerous, and discarded animals with the training of Certified Animal Euthanasia Technicians for animal control. The right to practice veterinary medicine is a privilege as set forth by the Legislature and enforced by the Board.
Effective August 1, 2018, the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine was moved to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
LA Veterinary Practice Act & Rulemaking
The Louisiana Veterinary Practice Act, the Board Rules, and complimentary legal authority are provided below; however, they are continuously under review and potentially subject to adoption, amendment or repeal at any time based on circumstances presented. It would be prudent to follow the appropriate procedure when submitting queries, when applicable, by reviewing Rule 1423 regarding Declaratory Statements.
Current rulemaking activity as it relates to the LA Veterinary Practice Act can be found at www.lsbvm.org/rulemaking.
LA Veterinary Practice Act, Rules & Standards, Complimentary Laws, & Code of Ethics
Recent Board News
What is Allowable for DVM Graduates Prior to Issuance of License
The Board has received several inquiries regarding what duties may be delegated to a DVM graduate who has yet to be licensed, irrespective of whether the graduate has successfully passed the NAVLE. The Louisiana Veterinary Practice Act prohibits the “practice of...
Accessing LBVM License Portal for ’25-’26 Renewal Cycle
Attention All Current LA Licensees & Certificate Holders! -- If you have not done so in the past three months, you will be required to reset your login credentials to access the LBVM License Portal by following the steps below. 1. Go to the LBVM License Portal...
Applications Only Valid for One Year
All applications for licensure or certification submitted after June 20, 2025 will be valid for no more than one (1) year from the initial date of submission. If a license or certificate has not been issued within one year from the initial date of submission, the...
New Searchable Database of LBVM-Approved Continuing Education Activity Now Available
The Board is excited to announce a newly designed, dynamic, Searchable Database of Continuing Education Activity pre-approved by the LBVM. We have also added a new feature which allows sponsors to include a document (i.e.– a flyer or itinerary/schedule, etc) for the...