Bill Text: NY S08471 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-15 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S08471 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08471-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8471

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding animal fighting  to
          the  definition  of  "criminal  activity"  for  purposes of enterprise
          corruption crimes

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 460.10 of the
     2  penal law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b)  Any  felony  set  forth  elsewhere  in the laws of this state and
     5  defined by the tax law relating to alcoholic beverage, cigarette,  gaso-
     6  line  and  similar motor fuel taxes; article seventy-one of the environ-
     7  mental conservation law relating to water pollution, hazardous waste  or
     8  substances  hazardous or acutely hazardous to public health or safety of
     9  the environment; article twenty-three-A  of  the  general  business  law
    10  relating  to  prohibited acts concerning stocks, bonds and other securi-
    11  ties, article twenty-two of the general business law concerning  monopo-
    12  lies, section three hundred fifty-one of the agriculture and markets law
    13  relating to animal fighting.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11274-01-3