Bill Text: NY S02723 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02723 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02723-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2723
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, FUNKE, HOYLMAN, MARTINEZ, SERINO,
          SERRANO, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare
        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.
                                                                   LBD02461-01-9
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