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Assembly Bill A1116

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals

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2025-A1116 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Aging
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8157
2021-2022: A1531
2023-2024: A158

2025-A1116 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals; removes the two year imprisonment cap.

2025-A1116 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1116
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred 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. 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.
 A                                                          LBD01471-01-5

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