Bill Text: NY S06382 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends legislative bills numbers A. 2756 and S. 3856, designating working dogs as the official state dog.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9172 [S06382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06382-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6382--A
            Cal. No. 13
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 8, 2016
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        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- reported favora-
          bly from said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by  Senate
          and  delivered  to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored
          to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place
          in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the state law, in relation to designating working dogs
          as the official state dog
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 90 of the state law, as added by a chapter of the
     2  laws of 2015, amending the state law  relating  to  designating  service
     3  dogs as the official state dog, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
     4  A.2756 and S.3856, is amended to read as follows:
     5    §  90.  State dog. The [service] working dog shall be the official dog
     6  of the state. For the purposes of this section, "[Service] working  dog"
     7  shall  [have  the same meaning as set forth in section one hundred eight
     8  of the agriculture and markets law] mean: (a) a guide dog, a police work
     9  dog, a war dog, a hearing dog, a service dog, a working  search  dog,  a
    10  therapy  dog,  or  a detection dog as those terms are defined by section
    11  one hundred eight of the agriculture and markets law or any dog that has
    12  met such definition during its life; or (b) any dog that is  trained  to
    13  herd  and/or  protect  livestock  or  control bird and/or wildlife popu-
    14  lations and is actually or has been used for such purposes.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    16  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the state law relating
    17  to  designating  service  dogs as the official state dog, as proposed in
    18  legislative bills numbers A.2756 and S.3856, takes effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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