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Assembly Bill A6373

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands aggravated cruelty to animals to include all animals

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2025-A6373 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6560
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5506, S5116
2017-2018: A4850, S6186
2019-2020: A5722, S2018
2021-2022: A6920, S5615
2023-2024: A5179, S4602

2025-A6373 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands aggravated cruelty to animals to include all animals.

2025-A6373 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6373
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  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] AN  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 sadistic manner.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09677-01-5

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