A1843D-2011 Actions

• May 8, 2012: reported referred to codes
• Apr 20, 2012: print number 1843d
• Apr 20, 2012: amend and recommit to agriculture
• Jan 9, 2012: print number 1843c
• Jan 9, 2012: amend and recommit to agriculture
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to agriculture
• Apr 14, 2011: print number 1843b
• Apr 14, 2011: amend and recommit to codes
• Apr 1, 2011: print number 1843a
• Apr 1, 2011: amend and recommit to codes
• Mar 22, 2011: reported referred to codes
• Jan 12, 2011: referred to agriculture

A1843D-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                   1843--D

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 12, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BENEDETTO, MAISEL, MILLMAN, KAVANAGH,
    PAULIN, TITONE, P. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BOYLAND,
    COLTON, GABRYSZAK, HEVESI, LIFTON, REILLY, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read
    once  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Agriculture -- reported and
    referred to the Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill
    amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
    tee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered
    reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
    to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,
    sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
    amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from  said
    committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommit-
    ted to said committee

  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. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 353-a  of  the  agriculture
  and  markets  law,  as  added  by  chapter  118 of the laws of 1999, are
  amended to read as follows:

    1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when,  with  no
  justifiable  purpose,  he  or  she  intentionally kills or intentionally
  causes serious physical injury to a companion  animal  OR  WILDLIFE,  AS
  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  SIX  OF  SECTION  11-0103 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
  CONSERVATION LAW, OTHER THAN INSECTS,  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. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit or
  interfere in any way with anyone lawfully engaged in hunting,  trapping,
  or fishing, as provided in article eleven of the environmental conserva-

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD02265-05-2

 A. 1843--D                          2

  tion  law, ACTIVITIES DEEMED TO BE SOUND AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES PURSUANT
  TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, the dispatch of rabid or
  diseased animals, as provided in article twenty-one of the public health
  law, or the dispatch of animals posing a threat to human safety or other
  animals, where such action is otherwise legally authorized, or any prop-
  erly  conducted scientific tests, experiments, or investigations involv-
  ing the use of living animals, performed or conducted in laboratories or
  institutions approved for such purposes by the  commissioner  of  health
  pursuant to section three hundred fifty-three of this article.
    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
  have become a law.