Senate Bill S5414

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for penalties for causing the death of an animal

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture 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-S5414 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6687
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add §352, amd §§353 & 353-a, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5117, A5507
2017-2018: S6146, A4748
2019-2020: S1116, A5734
2021-2022: S4918, A7135
2023-2024: S4105, A5192

2025-S5414 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for penalties for causing the death of an animal; makes it a class D felony.

2025-S5414 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5414 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5414
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MURRAY -- 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 penal-
   ties for causing the death of an animal
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
 section 352 to read as follows:
   § 352. CAUSING THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL. A PERSON IS GUILTY  OF  CAUSING
 THE  DEATH  OF AN ANIMAL, WHEN SUCH PERSON COMMITS A CRIME UNDER SECTION
 THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OR SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE-A OF THIS
 ARTICLE, AND SUCH CONDUCT RESULTS IN THE DEATH OF AN  ANIMAL.    CAUSING
 THE DEATH OF AN ANIMAL IS A CLASS D FELONY.
   §  2.  The  opening  paragraph  of  section 353 of the agriculture and
 markets law, as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   A  person  who  overdrives,  overloads,  tortures  or cruelly beats or
 unjustifiably injures, maims, OR mutilates [or kills] any animal, wheth-
 er wild or tame, and whether belonging to [himself] THEM or to  another,
 or  deprives  any  animal  of  necessary  sustenance,  food or drink, or
 neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink,  or  causes,
 procures  or  permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured,
 cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated [or killed],
 or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who [wilfully] WILLFUL-
 LY sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any  act
 of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, is
 guilty  of  a  class  A misdemeanor and for purposes of paragraph (b) of
 subdivision one of section 160.10 of the criminal procedure  law,  shall
 be treated as a misdemeanor defined in the penal law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09006-01-5
 S. 5414                             2

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