Senate Bill S197

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S197 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3050
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5325, A8211

2025-S197 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.

2025-S197 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S197 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    197
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,
   GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, ROLISON,  TEDISCO,  WEBER
   -- 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 sentenc-
   ing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "Tucker's law".
   §  2.  Subdivision  3  of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is 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
 of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be  a  defi-
 nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00764-01-5

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