Bill Text: NY A02795 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A02795 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02795-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2795

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  expand-
          ing the definition of crops, livestock and livestock products

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph m to read as follows:
     3    m. Purpose-bred animals, including but not limited to: (i)  all  types
     4  of working dogs as defined in section ninety of the state law, including
     5  but  not limited to: (A) law enforcement dogs, including but not limited
     6  to detention dogs, police work dogs, dogs used by the military,  protec-
     7  tive  security  and  working  search  dogs, as such terms are defined in
     8  section one hundred eight of this chapter; (B)  personal  service  dogs,
     9  including  but not limited to service dogs, therapy dogs, guide dogs and
    10  hearing dogs as those terms are defined in section one hundred eight  of
    11  this  chapter;  and  (C)  livestock and wildlife control dogs, which for
    12  purposes of this article shall include any dog that is trained  to  herd
    13  and/or protect livestock or control bird and/or wildlife populations and
    14  is  actually  or  has  been  used  for such purposes; (ii) other service
    15  animals as defined in section one hundred twenty-three-b of  this  chap-
    16  ter;  and  (iii) any research animal, which for purposes of this article
    17  shall include any animal that is raised or maintained  specifically  for
    18  the  purpose  of regulated biomedical research to promote the health and
    19  wellness of humans or animals.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04383-01-3