| NY | A05639 | Intro
25% | Enacts the New York state excess food act which provides for mandatory donation of consumable food products; provides mandatory composting of appropriate materials; establishes the New York state excess food fund which will be funded by fines collect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
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| NY | A05505 | Intro
25% | Relates to the inspection of property that has been vacated for abandoned animals; requires property owners and lessors to inspect such property within three days and to immediately notify the appropriate authorities when such person finds an animal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | A05495 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat, also known as 2-chloro-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A05558 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of red dye 3 as a food additive or food color additive and the sale of food products containing red dye 3 beginning January 1, 2027; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | A05181 | Intro
25% | Relates to the management, development, and funding of the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry; establishes a director of aquacultural and maricultural resources position in the department of agriculture and markets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A05139 | Intro
25% | Requires residential property owners to register backyard chicken coops for the purposes of containing disease outbreaks affecting such chicken coops.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04952 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a grant program to provide funding to emergency food providers to purchase prepared meals fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04910 | Intro
25% | Relates to voluntary contributions in support of municipal animal pounds or shelters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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| NY | A04894 | Intro
25% | Enhances and enacts provisions relating to criminalizing the promotion of animal fighting and appropriately punishing individuals associated with such activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04726 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the retail sale of spices that exceed lead level limits; defines spices and types of spices; establishes acceptable lead limits for various types of spices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04458 | Intro
25% | Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | A04283 | Intro
25% | Relates to the confinement of companion animals in vehicles in extreme temperatures; provides such animals may be rescued if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04376 | Intro
25% | Relates to the registration and regulation of animal breeders; requires each to be licensed; creates a breeder licensing fund; exempts not-for-profit organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | A04293 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to conduct a study on climate resilient crops and climate smart farming practices; requires the commissioner to report to the governor and legislature within one year with recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | A04515 | Intro
25% | Expands the FreshConnect program, which provides rebates for the purchase of local produce to certain people, to include local produce sold in supermarkets and grocery stores.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04264 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of agriculture and markets to develop and maintain a database on the impact of climate change on agriculture; requires farmers to report to the department on the impact of climate change on agriculture, including but not limit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A04164 | Intro
25% | Requires perishable and packaged food to be clearly marked with safety and quality dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | A04250 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalties for theft of a companion animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | A03823 | Intro
25% | Includes land used for processing or retail merchandising of agricultural products within the real property tax exemption for land used in agricultural production.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03880 | Intro
25% | Enhances penalties for committing multiple animal cruelty offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03623 | Intro
25% | Establishes the NY food insecurity, farm resiliency and rural poverty initiative to provide financial assistance in the form of matching grants, hiring assistance, purchasing assistance, tax credits, tax exemptions, and reimbursements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A02122 | Intro
25% | Establishes the "garden protection act", protecting the rights of individuals to cultivate home vegetable gardens, native plant gardens, and/or pollinator gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | A01121 | Intro
25% | Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | A01116 | Intro
25% | Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals; removes the two year imprisonment cap.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03633 | Intro
25% | Establishes a veterans in agriculture assistance and outreach program to help integrate veterans into the field of agriculture, and support veterans currently working in agriculture; designs an associated logotype for the promotion of products produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03476 | Intro
25% | Relates to the exemption from inspection for certain meat products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03498 | Intro
25% | Expands the definition of crops, livestock and livestock products to include purpose-bred animals raised for research, service animals, working dogs or any working animals in service on a farm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | A03297 | Intro
25% | Includes use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument in the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| NY | A02143 | Intro
25% | Requires duly incorporated humane societies, a duly incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, pet dealers, or any pound microchip stray animals before making them available for adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A03080 | Intro
25% | Relates to the disposition of abused farm animals; provides that convicted individuals and those in their households or those who aided or abetted in the unlawful acts or should have known or knew of such acts may not be entitled to any monies genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | A03050 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | A03166 | Intro
25% | Restricts individuals from owning a companion animal after being convicted of certain crimes involving animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | A03158 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to require a mental health evaluation when a person is convicted of certain crimes pertaining to animal fighting and aggravated cruelty to animals; requires the convicted person to assume the costs of any evaluation and continued t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | A03150 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the importing, possession, or sale of any part or product of the skin or body of a kangaroo for commercial purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | A02555 | Intro
25% | Establishes a civil remedy for the protection of animals denied proper care by creating a special proceeding in the supreme court that will hold owners and caretakers liable if such animals under their care are mistreated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| NY | A02421 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the operation of establishments where animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food; establishes a task force on public health risks and animal welfare concerns of slaughterhouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
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| NY | A02092 | Intro
25% | Relates to requiring licensed slaughterhouses to have a closed circuit camera and television system in all areas with live animals; establishes a reporting requirement pursuant to inspections where a violation is found.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | A02194 | Intro
25% | Establishes an animal abuser statewide registry with community notification requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | A02185 | Intro
25% | Defines therapeutic agriculture for the purposes of community gardens as the use of agricultural activities as a means of promoting physical, mental and emotional well-being, rehabilitation and therapy for certain individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | A01885 | Intro
25% | Promotes understanding, awareness and enforcement of animal crimes laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01939 | Intro
25% | Limits the animal dealers that are exempt under the provisions of article 7 of the agriculture and markets law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs; applies provisions to dealers licensed as a class A dealer under the Federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
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| NY | A01966 | Intro
25% | Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A02026 | Intro
25% | Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals; removes requirement that an animal be killed with aggravated cruelty in order to be guilty of such crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01859 | Intro
25% | Imposes restrictions on non-therapeutic use of antimicrobial agents in animals in the absence of any clinical sign of disease in the animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A02019 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the requirement that injury be serious with respect to aggravated cruelty to animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01987 | Intro
25% | Provides for the humane treatment and removal of downed animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01698 | Intro
25% | Requires state or municipal officials to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01835 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of primates in entertainment acts; prohibits the department of environmental conservation for issuing any license or permit that would authorize the use of a primate in an entertainment act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01639 | Intro
25% | Requires the establishment of a plant-based agriculture grant program to assist small and medium-sized farms transition to plant-based agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
| NY | A01525 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of agriculture and markets to establish a grading system for retail food stores, food service establishments and food warehouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To Assembly Agriculture Committee |
