Bill Text: NY A00760 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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 Animal Welfare Act that sells dogs exclusively to USDA registered research facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A00760 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00760-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           760

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to limiting
          the animal dealers exempt under the provisions of article  7  of  such
          law relating to the licensing, identification and control of dogs

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 107 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law, as amended by section 1 of part T of chapter  59  of  the  laws  of
     3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. This article shall not apply to any dog confined to the premises of
     5  any  person,  firm or corporation engaged in the business of breeding or
     6  raising dogs for profit and licensed as  a  class  A  dealer  under  the
     7  Federal [Laboratory] Animal Welfare Act, provided such dealer sells dogs
     8  exclusively  to USDA registered research facilities, or research facili-
     9  ties with a Public Health Services  approved  Animal  Welfare  Assurance
    10  from  the  Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at the National Institute
    11  of Health and to agencies of the federal government that are exempt from
    12  the  Animal  Welfare  Act  and  foreign  entities  lawfully  engaged  in
    13  research.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00843-01-3