Bill Text: NY A03038 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 (Democrat 57-36)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-15 - print number 3038b [A03038 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3038
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 24, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture
        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 physical injury, as defined in subdivision
    13  twenty-eight of section one hundred eight of this chapter, or death to a
    14  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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