Bill Text: NY S00960 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-10 - referred to agriculture [S00960 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00960-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           960

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, HOYLMAN, SERINO, SERRANO, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD00730-01-1