Bill Text: NY S01680 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1680 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to a companion animal during the commission of a felony.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 17-8)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-06 - referred to codes [S01680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01680-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1680--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  TEDISCO, ADDABBO, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, AVELLA, BOYLE,
          BRESLIN,  BROOKS,  CROCI,  DILAN,  GOLDEN,  HELMING,  KENNEDY,  LANZA,
          LARKIN,  MARCHIONE,  MURPHY,  O'MARA,  PHILLIPS, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE,
          SANDERS, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
          be committed to the Committee on Agriculture  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Agriculture in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to expand-
          ing the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to
          animals during the commission of a felony
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as "Kirby and
     2  Quigley's Law."
     3    § 2. Subdivision 1 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    1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when[,]: either
     7    (a) with no justifiable purpose, he  or  she  intentionally  kills  or
     8  intentionally causes serious physical injury , as defined in subdivision
     9  twenty-nine of section one hundred eight of this chapter, to a companion
    10  animal with aggravated cruelty[.]; or
    11    (b)  in  the  course of commission of a felony, or of immediate flight
    12  therefrom, he or she causes intentional physical injury, as  defined  in
    13  subdivision  twenty-eight  of section one hundred eight of this chapter,
    14  or death to a companion animal.
    15    For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean  conduct
    16  which:   (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) is done
    17  or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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