Bill Text: NY S01044 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01044 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01044-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1044

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, FELDER, MATTERA, O'MARA -- 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 limiting
          the  ownership or possession of companion animals by persons convicted
          of violating "Buster's Law"

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

     1    Section 1. Section 353-a of the agriculture and markets law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  On and after the effective date of this subdivision, no person who
     4  is convicted of a violation of this  section  shall  own  or  possess  a
     5  companion  animal unless and until authorized by a court order issued by
     6  a county court judge of such convicted person's county of residence.  No
     7  such order shall be issued until  such  convicted  person  first  demon-
     8  strates  to the court that such convicted person has undergone psychiat-
     9  ric or psychological testing, the results of which indicate by clear and
    10  convincing evidence of such convicted person's capable and sound  mental
    11  capacity  and  ability  to own and properly care for such an animal in a
    12  humane manner.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.



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