Bill Text: NY A08211 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8211

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A08211 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08211-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8211

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to sentenc-
          ing for the crime of 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Tucker's law".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  3  of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
     4  law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read  as
     5  follows:
     6    3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
     7  this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
     8  one  of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term
     9  of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be  a  defi-
    10  nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06572-01-3