Bill Text: NY S00197 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 10-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S00197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00197-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           197

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,
          GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, ROLISON,  TEDISCO,  WEBER
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Tucker's law".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  3  of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
     4  law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read  as
     5  follows:
     6    3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
     7  this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
     8  one  of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term
     9  of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be  a  defi-
    10  nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00764-01-5