Bill Text: NY A06864 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals; removes requirement that an animal be killed with aggravated cruelty in order to be guilty of such crime.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A06864 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06864-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6864 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, DAVILA, COLTON, GLICK, TAYLOR, McDONOUGH, SANTABARBARA, GIGLIO, SEAWRIGHT, BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to aggra- vated cruelty to animals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no 5 justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally 6 causes serious physical injury to a companion animal [with aggravated7cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean8conduct which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii)9is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner]. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04975-01-9