Assembly Bill A2026

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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-A2026 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1781
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7375
2019-2020: S1433
2021-2022: S2673
2023-2024: A9739, S7317

2025-A2026 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals; removes requirement that an animal be killed with aggravated cruelty in order to be guilty of such crime.

2025-A2026 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2026
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to aggra-
   vated cruelty to animals
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  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:
   1.  A  person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no
 justifiable purpose, [he or she]  SUCH  PERSON  intentionally  kills  or
 intentionally causes serious physical injury to a companion animal [with
 aggravated  cruelty.  For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty"
 shall mean conduct which: (i) is  intended  to  cause  extreme  physical
 pain; or (ii) is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadis-
 tic manner].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03399-01-5

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