Bill Text: NY S00294 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 294

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S00294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00294-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           294

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, FELDER, MATTERA, O'MARA -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
          the  ownership or possession of companion animals by persons convicted
          of violating "Buster's Law"

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

     1    Section 1. Section 353-a of the agriculture and markets law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  On and after the effective date of this subdivision, no person who
     4  is convicted of a violation of this  section  shall  own  or  possess  a
     5  companion  animal unless and until authorized by a court order issued by
     6  a county court judge of his or her county of residence.  No  such  order
     7  shall  be  issued  until such convicted person first demonstrates to the
     8  court that he or she has undergone psychiatric or psychological testing,
     9  the results of which indicate by clear and convincing evidence of his or
    10  her capable and sound mental capacity and ability to  own  and  properly
    11  care for such an animal in a humane manner.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.




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