S00197 Summary:
BILL NO | S00197 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A01633 |
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SPONSOR | TEDISCO |
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COSPNSR | ADDABBO, AKSHAR, BOYLE, BRESLIN, BROOKS, HELMING, KENNEDY, O'MARA, RITCHIE, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, WEIK |
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Amd 353-a, Ag & Mkts L | |
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Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to a companion animal during the commission of a felony. |
S00197 Actions:
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01/06/2021 | REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/05/2022 | REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE |
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S00197 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 197 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, ADDABBO, AKSHAR, BOYLE, BRESLIN, BROOKS, HELMING, KENNEDY, O'MARA, RITCHIE, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA -- 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 expand- ing the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to animals during the commission of a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Kirby and 2 Quigley's Law". 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets 4 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when[,]: either 7 (a) with no justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or 8 intentionally causes serious physical injury, as defined in subdivision 9 twenty-nine of section one hundred eight of this chapter, to a companion 10 animal with aggravated cruelty[.]; or 11 (b) in the course of commission of a felony, or of immediate flight 12 therefrom, he or she causes intentional physical injury, as defined in 13 subdivision twenty-eight of section one hundred eight of this chapter, 14 or death to a companion animal. 15 For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall mean conduct 16 which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) is done 17 or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03411-01-1