Bill Sponsors: NY A00891 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Pertains to confinement of certain animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy or calf raised for veal for all or the majority of any day in a manner that prevents such animal from lying down, standing up and fully extending its limbs and turning around freely; establishes that commission of such crime shall constitute a class A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed one year and/or fine not to exceed $1,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A00891 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-067FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-024FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-047FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-066FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-028FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-052FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Phillip Steck [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-110FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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