Bill Text: NY A08157 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals; removes the two year imprisonment cap.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture [A08157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08157-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8157

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to sentenc-
          ing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  353-a of the agriculture and
     2  markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
     5  this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
     6  one  of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term
     7  of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be  a  defi-
     8  nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11736-02-9