Bill Text: NY A00737 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Limits the animal dealers that are exempt under the provisions of article 7 of the agriculture and markets law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs; applies provisions to dealers licensed as a class A dealer under the Federal Animal Welfare Act that sells dogs exclusively to USDA registered research facilities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A00737 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00737-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           737
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL, M. G. MILLER, JAFFEE, WEPRIN --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK,  GOTTFRIED,  MONTESANO  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
          the  animal  dealers  exempt under the provisions of article 7 of such
          law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 107 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law,  as  amended  by  section  1 of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of
     3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. This article shall not apply to any dog confined to the premises of
     5  any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of  breeding  or
     6  raising  dogs  for  profit  and  licensed  as a class A dealer under the
     7  Federal [Laboratory] Animal Welfare Act, provided such dealer sells dogs
     8  exclusively to USDA registered research facilities, or research  facili-
     9  ties  with  a  Public  Health Services approved Animal Welfare Assurance
    10  from the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at the  National  Institute
    11  of Health and to agencies of the federal government that are exempt from
    12  the  Animal  Welfare  Act  and  foreign  entities  lawfully  engaged  in
    13  research.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00532-01-9