Bill Text: NY A09739 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - held for consideration in agriculture [A09739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09739-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9739

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- 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 aggravated
     7  cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty"  shall  mean
     8  conduct  which:  (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii)
     9  is 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.
                                                                   LBD09185-01-3