New England Anti-Vivisection Society

	Florida	California	Pennsylvania	New York	Rhode Island	Illinois	Virginia	Oregon	New Jersey
Year Enacted	1985	1988	1992	1994	1997	2000	2004	2005	2006
Law or Resolution #	1998, 233.0674	ED32255- 32255.6	SB 727	EDN 809	97-S 377A	HB 3254	HB 1018	ORS 337.300	P.L. 2005, Chapter 266
Requires Student Notice	No	Yes	Yes (3 weeks)	No	No	Set by State Board	Yes	Yes	Yes
Requires "Moral" or "Religious" Reason	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Teacher Discretion	No	Yes	No	No	No	Implied	No	No	No
Explicitly excludes observing as an "alternative"	No	Neutral	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Mandates Provision of Alternatives	No	In certain cases	Yes	Yes	Yes	Set by State Board	Yes	No	Yes
Mandates Alternative Testing	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Requires Parental Consent	Yes	Yes	Implied	No	Implied	No	Yes	No	No
Explicitly Forbids Penalties	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Definition of Student	K-12, Public	K-12, Public, Under 18	K-12, Public/ Private	Not defined	K-12,Public or Nonpublic	Elementary or Secondary SchoolPublic/Private	All Public School Students	K-12, Public	K-12, Public
Definition of Animal	mammals and birds	Kingdom animalia.	Kingdom animalia, phylum chordata (vertebrates)	Not defined	Kingdom animalia	Does not include food products	Properly preserved animals or animal parts	Any vertebrate or invertebrate animal	Any living organism that is an invertebrate, or is in the phylum chordata or organisms which have a notochord and includes an animal's cadaver or severed parts of an animal's cadaver.
Praises Dissection	Yes	Neutral	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Adapted from The Use of Animals in Higher Education by Jonathan Balcombe Updated May 2001 Information corroborated by state departments of education.