| NY | S05654 | Intro
25% | Enhances penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals by making such offense a felony, including torture, beating, or killing of any animal; makes animal cruelty, including overdriving or depriving an animal of sustenance a felony when committed while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
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| NY | S05504 | Intro
25% | Provides that property receiving an agricultural assessment which is converted for purposes of oil or gas exploration shall be subject to payments equaling five times the taxes saved in the last year in which the land benefited from an agricultural a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
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| NY | S05513 | Intro
25% | Expands agricultural tourism to include, but not be limited to, the production and processing of grapes, grains or other crops used to create alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in an on-farm brewery, winery, cidery, meadery or distillery, the prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
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| NY | S05409 | Intro
25% | Enhances penalties for committing multiple animal cruelty offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05414 | Intro
25% | Provides for penalties for causing the death of an animal; makes it a class D felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05410 | 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] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05423 | Intro
25% | Relates to the judicial process relating to a dog that causes the death of a companion animal, farm animal or domestic animal while trespassing on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05488 | Intro
25% | Permits microchipping of certain animals possessed by animal protective associations and rescue organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05159 | Intro
25% | Requires the community gardens task force to conduct an assessment of all community gardens located on publicly owned land in the state to facilitate each garden's designation as a critical environmental area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
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| NY | S05140 | Intro
25% | Establishes a farm-to-school task force; directs the commissioner of education to develop a program to require all public schools to provide fresh foods to students in a manner that supports local agriculture and increases market opportunities for fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
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| NY | S05117 | Intro
25% | Establishes in the department of agriculture and markets a program to purchase fresh produce from farms located in the state and distribute such produce to areas determined by the commissioner of agriculture and markets to be food deserts; promotes o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
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| NY | S05017 | 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] | 2025-02-18
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| NY | S04911 | Intro
25% | Exempts processors of syrup made from tree sap or honey who do not purchase syrup made from tree sap or honey from others for repackaging, and who do not combine syrup made from tree sap or honey with any other ingredients capable of supporting the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | S04769 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to conduct a study on vertical farming.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04754 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of urban agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04755 | Intro
25% | Establishes the farm ownership succession planning program to provide farm owners with a succession planning toolkit that can be used by such farm owners who plan on selling or closing their farm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04372 | Intro
25% | Requires the creation of a thirteen member advisory board within the department of agriculture and markets on food safety and inspection programs; establishes such board is to advise, counsel and confer with the commissioner of agriculture and market...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | S04180 | 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] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04162 | 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] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04041 | Intro
25% | Establishes the sanitary retail food store grant program to provide funding to retail food stores that fail inspections to correct deficiencies if such stores are unable to sustain the costs to immediately correct critical deficiencies, are located i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03730 | Intro
25% | Relates to penalties for intent to cause injury to an animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | S03491 | Intro
25% | Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals in the presence of a child; increases the potential term of imprisonment from two to four years when such crime is committed in the presence of a child; defines presence of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03490 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalties for owners of dangerous dogs and subjects certain dangerous dog owners to further investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03578 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of agriculture and markets to facilitate and expand an initiative to promote opportunities for farm ownership to farmers who are black, indigenous and people of color; requires the department to submit an annual report to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03577 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of agriculture and markets to promote participation in Nourish New York, including financial and technical support, for black, indigenous and people of color site controlled farms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03538 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that any person, firm or corporation that sells or offers for sale at retail any motor fuel for use in internal combustion engines in motor vehicles or motorboats posts on the dispensing device signage stating the price per ga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03277 | Intro
25% | Establishes a process for designating transfer-on-death beneficiaries for farming implements involving filing a document with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| NY | S03214 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| NY | S03026 | Intro
25% | Restricts the performance of surgical devocalization procedures on dogs and cats; prohibited for reasons of convenience in keeping or handling a dog or cat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | S03073 | 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] | 2025-01-23
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| NY | S02603 | Intro
25% | Includes use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument in the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| NY | S02562 | Intro
25% | Enacts the New York agricultural investment task force act; establishes the New York task force on agricultural investment to study and assess the future of agriculture in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| NY | S02338 | Intro
25% | Allows municipalities to eliminate the surcharge for the licensing of service dogs relating to animal population control efforts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
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| NY | S02063 | Intro
25% | Relates to aggravated neglect of a companion animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | S02038 | Intro
25% | Provides that the use or storage of manure may not be deemed a public nuisance under local laws restricting farming operations within an agricultural district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | S02087 | Intro
25% | Requires high-sugar beverages to be labeled with a safety warning stating that the beverage contains 100% or more of the FDA recommended daily intake of added sugar.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | S01882 | Intro
25% | Relates to certain farm wineries, farm breweries, farm distilleries, and farm cideries whose business includes agricultural tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
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| NY | S01878 | 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] | 2025-01-14
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| NY | S01632 | Intro
25% | Exempts livestock guardian dogs and herding dogs from license fees relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01742 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty of knowingly violating the provisions relating to the appropriate shelter for dogs from a violation to a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine not less than five hundred dollars nor mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01753 | Intro
25% | Establishes Bella's Law which calls for an investigation into possible domestic violence or abuse for persons who have been accused of animal abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01741 | Intro
25% | Provides that the penalty for the abandonment of animals is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01743 | Intro
25% | Requires certain peace officers to issue an appearance ticket, summon or arrest and bring before the appropriate court any person offending the provisions of article 26 of the agriculture and markets law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01802 | Intro
25% | Prohibits ear clipping and tail docking of dogs unless deemed medically necessary to protect the life or health of the dog.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01781 | 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] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01784 | 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] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01507 | Intro
25% | Includes reckless operation of a motor vehicle resulting in the death or serious injury of a companion animal in the definition of aggravated animal cruelty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S01562 | Intro
25% | Limits ownership or possession of companion animals by "Buster's Law" violators; adds definition of equine companion while taking horses out of farm animal definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S01563 | Intro
25% | Requires each violator of "Buster's Law" to register the violator's name and address with the division of criminal justice services; makes the registration available to the public, law enforcement entities, district attorneys, humane societies, socie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S01306 | Intro
25% | Creates a real property tax exemption for land of a farm operation which is in the process of being certified for the production of organic crops.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
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