Bill Text: NY A01291 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to codes [A01291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01291-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1291

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing
          bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (u)  of subdivision 4 of section 510.10 of the
     2  criminal procedure law, as added by section 2 of subpart B of part UU of
     3  chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended and a new  paragraph  (v)  is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    (u)  criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as defined in
     6  subdivision three of section 265.02 of the penal law or criminal sale of
     7  a firearm to a minor as defined in section 265.16 of the  penal  law[.];
     8  or
     9    (v)  aggravated cruelty to animals as defined in section three hundred
    10  fifty-three-a of the agriculture and markets law.
    11    § 2. Subparagraph (xxi) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1  of  section
    12  530.20 of the criminal procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart C
    13  of  part  UU  of  chapter  56  of the laws of 2022, is amended and a new
    14  subparagraph (xxii) is added to read as follows:
    15    (xxi) criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree  as  defined
    16  in subdivision three of section 265.02 of the penal law or criminal sale
    17  of  a  firearm  to  a  minor  as  defined in section 265.16 of the penal
    18  law[.]; or
    19    (xxii) aggravated cruelty to  animals  as  defined  in  section  three
    20  hundred fifty-three-a of the agriculture and markets law.
    21    §  3. Paragraph (u) of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the criminal
    22  procedure law, as added by section 4 of subpart B of part UU of  chapter
    23  56  of  the laws of 2022, is amended and a new paragraph (v) is added to
    24  read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1291                             2

     1    (u) criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as defined  in
     2  subdivision three of section 265.02 of the penal law or criminal sale of
     3  a  firearm  to a minor as defined in section 265.16 of the penal law[.];
     4  or
     5    (v)  aggravated cruelty to animals as defined in section three hundred
     6  fifty-three-a of the agriculture and markets law.
     7    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.