Bill Text: NY S05325 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5325

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-09 - referred to agriculture [S05325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05325-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5325

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 sentenc-
          ing for the crime of 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.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Tucker's 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 subdivision
     8  one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any  term
     9  of  imprisonment  imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi-
    10  nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06572-01-3