Bill Text: NY S06222 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to requiring the court to consider the best interest of a companion animal when awarding possession in a divorce or separation proceeding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to judiciary [S06222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06222-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6222

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare

        AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to requiring the
          court to consider the best interest of a companion animal when  award-
          ing possession in a divorce or separation proceeding

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 14 of paragraph d of subdivision 5 of  part  B
     2  of  section  236 of the domestic relations law, as renumbered by chapter
     3  229 of the laws of 2009, is renumbered subparagraph 15 and a new subpar-
     4  agraph 14 is added to read as follows:
     5    (14) in awarding the possession of a companion animal, the court shall
     6  consider the best interest of such animal. "Companion animal,"  as  used
     7  in this subparagraph, shall have the same meaning as in subdivision five
     8  of section three hundred fifty of the agriculture and markets law;
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05686-01-9
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