Bill Text: NY S05807 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals; removes the two year imprisonment cap.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05807-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5807--A
            Cal. No. 1017

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare --
          reported favorably from said committee and committed to the  Committee
          on Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a third
          reading,  passed  by  Senate  and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
          vote reconsidered, restored to  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        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. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tucker's law".
     2    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 353-a of  the  agriculture  and  markets
     3  law,  as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
     6  this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
     7  one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any  term
     8  of  imprisonment  imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi-
     9  nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.




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