Bill Text: NY S04602 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands aggravated cruelty to animals to include all animals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S04602 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04602-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4602

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  aggra-
          vated cruelty to animals

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  353-a  of  the  agriculture  and
     2  markets  law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when,  with  no
     5  justifiable  purpose,  he  or  she  intentionally kills or intentionally
     6  causes serious physical injury to [a companion] an  animal  with  aggra-
     7  vated cruelty.  For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall
     8  mean  conduct which:  (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or
     9  (ii) is done or carried  out  in  an  especially  depraved  or  sadistic
    10  manner.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05150-01-3