New York Assembly Bill 8163 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: Introduced on May 6 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to agriculture
Pending: Assembly Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill will phase-out pig gestation crates, veal crates and hen battery cages by 2015.

Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending it's limbs and turning around freely; establishes that commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year and/or fine not to exceed $1,000.

Asm. Jonathan Bing [D]	Asm. Ann-Margaret Carrozza [D]	Asm. Nelson Castro [D]	Asm. Michael Cusick [D]
Asm. Steven Englebright [D]	Asm. Deborah Glick [D]	Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]	Asm. Andrew Hevesi [D]
Asm. Donna Hyer-Spencer [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]	Asm. Micah Kellner [D]	Sen. George Latimer [D]
Asm. Vito Lopez [D]	Asm. Alan Maisel [D]	Asm. John McEneny [D]	Asm. Joan Millman [D]
Asm. Amy Paulin [D]	Asm. Annette Robinson [D]	Asm. Linda Rosenthal [D]	Asm. Frank Skartados [D]
Asm. Michele Titus [D]	Asm. Harvey Weisenberg [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to agriculture
2009-05-06		referred to agriculture

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08163&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08163&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08163