Assembly Actions -
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Feb 10, 2021 |
referred to agriculture |
Assembly Bill A5039
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
PAULIN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Linda Rosenthal
Aileen Gunther
William Colton
Sandy Galef
multi-Sponsors
Peter Abbate
Michael Cusick
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Deborah Glick
2021-A5039 (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-A5039 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5039 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, L. ROSENTHAL, GUNTHER, COLTON, GALEF, NORRIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CUSICK, DINOWITZ, GLICK, RA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agri- culture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas- ing the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 353 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 458 of the laws of 1985 and the opening paragraph as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: § 353. Overdriving, torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance. 1. A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or kills any animal, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to himself or to another, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or caus- es, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who wilfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and for purposes of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 160.10 of the criminal procedure law, shall be treated as a misdemeanor defined in the penal law. 2. A SECOND VIOLATION OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION WITHIN FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF A PRIOR CONVICTION OF ANY VIOLATION OF SUBDIVI- SION ONE OF THIS SECTION, SHALL BE A FELONY. A DEFENDANT CONVICTED OF THIS OFFENSE SHALL BE SENTENCED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 55.10 OF THE PENAL LAW PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY TERM EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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