| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jun 07, 2016 | referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Feb 02, 2016 | advanced to third reading |
| Feb 01, 2016 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jan 26, 2016 | 1st report cal.74 |
| Jan 06, 2016 | referred to agriculture returned to senate died in assembly |
| Mar 11, 2015 | referred to agriculture delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Feb 26, 2015 | advanced to third reading |
| Feb 25, 2015 | 2nd report cal. |
| Feb 10, 2015 | 1st report cal.98 |
| Jan 14, 2015 | referred to agriculture |
senate Bill S1795
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Patty Ritchie
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Passed Senate
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Kathleen A. Marchione
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
S1795 (ACTIVE) - Details
S1795 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1795 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the prohibition of animal fighting PURPOSE: This bill would criminalize knowingly causing a minor to attend an exhibition of animal fighting. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends Subdivision 4 of Section 351 of the Agriculture and Markets Law, by adding a new paragraph (c) that includes causing a minor to attend an exhibition of animal fighting. Section 2 provides the effective date. JUSTIFICATION: Our state should recognize the extremely harmful impact on children who witness animal fighting. A growing body of research indicates that cruelty to animals done in the presence of children can damage their emotional development. Such children are more likely to become abusive, anti-social, less empathetic, and desensitized to abhorrent social behavior.
S1795 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1795
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 the
prohibition of animal fighting
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 351 of the agriculture and markets
law, as added by chapter 150 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
follows:
4. (a) Any person who engages in conduct specified in paragraph (b) OR
(C) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by imprisonment
for a period not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed one
thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(b) The knowing presence as a spectator having paid an admission fee
or having made a wager at any place where an exhibition of animal fight-
ing is being conducted; OR
(C) KNOWINGLY CAUSES A MINOR TO ATTEND AN EXHIBITION OF ANIMAL FIGHT-
ING. THE TERM "MINOR" MEANS A PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN YEARS
OLD.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04300-01-5
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