Bill Text: NY A06947 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Strengthens enforcement efforts of the state's anti-slaughter of race horses and race horse breeding stock law; requires the posting of signage that states it is illegal to sell or transfer such animals for the purposes of slaughter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-09 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A06947 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06947-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6947--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on  Agriculture  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture  and  markets  law,  in relation to
          strengthening enforcement efforts of  the  state's  anti-slaughter  of
          race horses and race horse breeding stock law

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

     1    Section 1. Section 382 of the agriculture and markets law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. All corporations, associations, or other entities offering for sale
     4  or  purchase,  thoroughbred  or standardbred horses, including livestock
     5  auction houses must  have  signage  conspicuously  posted,  which  shall
     6  reference that it is illegal to sell or transfer a thoroughbred or stan-
     7  dardbred  race horse or breeding stock for the purposes of slaughter and
     8  explicitly state the penalties associated with  the  violation  of  this
     9  section. Such signage shall also reference that it is illegal to sell or
    10  transfer  a  horse  to be slaughtered for the purpose of human or animal
    11  consumption and explicitly  state  the  penalties  associated  with  the
    12  violation  of  section  three  hundred eighty-five of this article. Such
    13  signage shall occur no later than ninety days after the  effective  date
    14  of this subdivision.
    15    §  2.  The  agriculture  and  markets  law  is amended by adding a new
    16  section 386 to read as follows:
    17    § 386. Requirements for live auctions. The  department  shall  make  a
    18  good  faith  effort  to  have an agent present at each livestock auction
    19  where horses are being sold. Such agent shall be charged with the review
    20  of all health certificates for all thoroughbred and standardbred  horses
    21  sold.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11082-04-4