Senate Bill S8029

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to regulation of and standards for animal shelters; repealer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Domestic Animal Welfare 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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2019-S8029 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Domestic Animal Welfare
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 26-C §§411 - 425, rpld §§377-a & 408, amd §§400, 403 & 380, Ag & Mkts L; amd §752, Gen Bus L

2019-S8029 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the regulation of and enacts standards for animal shelters to provide increased protections for the care of animals and improve state oversight.

2019-S8029 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8029 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8029
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 11, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Domestic Animal Welfare
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation  to  estab-
   lishing standards for the care of dogs and cats in animal shelters; to
   amend  the  general  business  law, in relation to pet dealers; and to
   repeal certain provisions of the agriculture and markets law  relating
   to  spaying  and  neutering of dogs and cats and the definition of pet
   dealers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Legislative  Intent.  The  department  of agriculture and
 markets holds statutory responsibility for the  oversight  of  municipal
 animal  shelters and any duly incorporated humane society, duly incorpo-
 rated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals or duly  incorpo-
 rated  animal  protective association providing contractual animal shel-
 tering services for local governments in this state. The department also
 holds statutory responsibility  for  registering  not-for-profit  animal
 shelters  or  rescue organizations as entities exempt from licensure and
 inspection under the agency's pet dealer program. Currently however,  no
 statutory  facility or animal care standards exist in law to which these
 organizations must conform to adequately  and  uniformly  ensure  animal
 health  and  wellbeing  at and in transport to and from such facilities.
 The legislature finds that the universe of entities  harboring  homeless
 dogs and cats in our communities and providing animal transport in-state
 and across state lines has evolved and grown exponentially over the past
 several  decades,  rendering  the  existing  statutory framework for the
 oversight of such entities deficient and benefiting neither the adoptive
 families of dogs and cats in need nor the  organizations  that  work  so
 diligently to find safe, loving homes for them.
   Therefore,  it  is the stated purpose of this legislation to establish
 responsible, uniform and effective standards for the care  of  dogs  and
 cats  in  animal  shelters as defined herein to improve state oversight,
 ensure public trust and  provide  for  increased  protections  for  such
 animals while in the care of such facilities.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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