Bill Text: NY A02059 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to higher education [A02059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02059-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2059

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COLTON, COOK, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  prohibiting  vivisec-
          tion  at colleges and universities in the state where a scientifically
          and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Vivisection prohibited. 1. For purposes of this section:
     4    (a)  "Vivisection"  means  experimentation through surgery on a living
     5  organism to view living internal structure.
     6    (b) "Scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy"
     7  means a teaching method or strategy that accomplishes the  goal  of  the
     8  proposed  education  or  training or teaching method or strategy that is
     9  used by a majority of other institutions of higher education  to  accom-
    10  plish the same goal.
    11    2.  Vivisection  is  prohibited at all colleges, universities, profes-
    12  sional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where  an  alterna-
    13  tive  scientifically  and  educationally satisfactory method or strategy
    14  exists.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00823-01-1