Bill Text: NY S03325 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases certain penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO DOMESTIC ANIMAL WELFARE [S03325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03325-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3325
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, ORTT -- 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 increas-
          ing certain penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals
          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 "Phoenix's
     2  law".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 3 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    3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
     7  this offense shall be sentenced [pursuant to paragraph (b)  of  subdivi-
     8  sion  one  of section 55.10 of the penal law provided, however, that any
     9  term of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section  shall  be  a
    10  definite sentence, which may not exceed two years] to a period of impri-
    11  sonment  not  to exceed four years, by a fine not to exceed ten thousand
    12  dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to any  other
    13  penalty  provided  by law, the court shall order any defendant convicted
    14  of this offense, including a defendant who has been adjudicated a youth-
    15  ful offender, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by a qualified  mental
    16  health  professional and may require that such person, at his or her own
    17  expense, enter and complete any treatment or program deemed necessary to
    18  treat any mental disease, mental defect or mental condition,  which  may
    19  have caused or contributed to such offense.
    20    § 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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