Assembly Bill A664

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits a person convicted of violating "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A664 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1044
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10283
2011-2012: A1580, S5084
2013-2014: A4514, S2566
2015-2016: A1600, S3030
2017-2018: A6938, S2501
2019-2020: A987, S2007
2021-2022: A524, S1257
2023-2024: A433, S294

2025-A664 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A664 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    664
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, COLTON -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 353-a of the agriculture and markets law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. ON AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO PERSON  WHO
 IS  CONVICTED  OF  A  VIOLATION  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL OWN OR POSSESS A
 COMPANION ANIMAL UNLESS AND UNTIL AUTHORIZED BY A COURT ORDER ISSUED  BY
 A COUNTY COURT JUDGE OF SUCH CONVICTED PERSON'S COUNTY OF RESIDENCE.  NO
 SUCH  ORDER  SHALL  BE  ISSUED  UNTIL SUCH CONVICTED PERSON FIRST DEMON-
 STRATES TO THE COURT THAT SUCH CONVICTED PERSON HAS UNDERGONE  PSYCHIAT-
 RIC OR PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING, THE RESULTS OF WHICH INDICATE BY CLEAR AND
 CONVINCING  EVIDENCE OF SUCH CONVICTED PERSON'S CAPABLE AND SOUND MENTAL
 CAPACITY AND ABILITY TO OWN AND PROPERLY CARE FOR SUCH AN  ANIMAL  IN  A
 HUMANE MANNER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02633-02-5

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