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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  higher
   education  research  facilities  to make available certain information
   regarding the adoption of dogs or cats

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 239-b of the education law, as
 added by chapter 240 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new  subdivi-
 sion 4 is added to read as follows:
   2.  A  facility  that  is  required to offer dogs or cats for adoption
 under this section may enter into an agreement with an animal rescue and
 shelter organization, a duly incorporated society for the prevention  of
 cruelty to animals, a duly incorporated humane society, or a duly incor-
 porated  animal  protective  association  that  operates physical animal
 sheltering facilities and  offers  household  pets  to  the  public  for
 adoption  by  way  of an established adoption program[.], THAT IS EXEMPT
 FROM TAXES PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (3) OF SUBSECTION (C) OF SECTION 501 OF
 THE FEDERAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, 26  U.S.C.  501,  OR  ANY  SUBSEQUENT
 CORRESPONDING  SECTIONS  OF  THE  FEDERAL INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AS FROM
 TIME TO TIME AMENDED.
   4. A FACILITY THAT IS REQUIRED TO OFFER  DOGS  OR  CATS  FOR  ADOPTION
 UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE ON THE FACILITY'S WEBSITE:
   (A)  AN  ADOPTION  POLICY  THAT  DETAILS  THE SPECIFIC STEPS THAT SUCH
 FACILITY TAKES TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A DOG OR CAT DEEMED  SUIT-
 ABLE FOR ADOPTION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION; AND
   (B)  BEGINNING  JANUARY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX, A REPORT THAT
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR  THE
 PRECEDING YEAR:
   (I)  THE  TOTAL  NUMBER  OF  DOGS  AND  CATS THE FACILITY RELEASED FOR
 ADOPTION THROUGH PRIVATE PLACEMENT;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (II) THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DOGS  AND  CATS  THE  FACILITY  RELEASED  FOR
 ADOPTION  TO  AN ANIMAL RESCUE AND SHELTER ORGANIZATION, A DULY INCORPO-
 RATED SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, A DULY  INCORPO-
 RATED  HUMANE  SOCIETY, OR A DULY INCORPORATED ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCI-
 ATION  THAT  OPERATES  PHYSICAL  ANIMAL SHELTERING FACILITIES AND OFFERS
 HOUSEHOLD PETS TO THE PUBLIC FOR  ADOPTION  BY  WAY  OF  AN  ESTABLISHED
 ADOPTION PROGRAM; AND
   (III)  A LIST OF ALL SUCH ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS TO
 WHICH A DOG OR CAT WAS RELEASED BY SUCH FACILITY FOR ADOPTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.