•  Summary 
  •  
  •  Actions 
  •  
  •  Committee Votes 
  •  
  •  Floor Votes 
  •  
  •  Memo 
  •  
  •  Text 
  •  
  •  LFIN 
  •  
  •  Chamber Video/Transcript 

A06687 Summary:

BILL NOA06687
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05414
 
SPONSORTannousis
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §352, amd §§353 & 353-a, Ag & Mkts L
 
Provides for penalties for causing the death of an animal; makes it a class D felony.
Go to top    

A06687 Actions:

BILL NOA06687
 
03/06/2025referred to agriculture
Go to top

A06687 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6687
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 7, 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  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:

     1    Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
     2  section 352 to read as follows:
     3    §  352.  Causing the death of an animal. A person is guilty of causing
     4  the death of an animal, when such person commits a crime  under  section
     5  three hundred fifty-three or section three hundred fifty-three-a of this
     6  article,  and  such  conduct results in the death of an animal.  Causing
     7  the death of an animal is a class D felony.
     8    § 2. The opening paragraph of  section  353  of  the  agriculture  and
     9  markets  law,  as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2005, is amended
    10  to read as follows:
    11    A person who overdrives,  overloads,  tortures  or  cruelly  beats  or
    12  unjustifiably injures, maims, or mutilates [or kills] any animal, wheth-
    13  er  wild or tame, and whether belonging to [himself] them or to another,
    14  or deprives any animal  of  necessary  sustenance,  food  or  drink,  or
    15  neglects  or  refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or causes,
    16  procures or permits any animal to be overdriven,  overloaded,  tortured,
    17  cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured, maimed, mutilated [or killed],
    18  or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who [wilfully] willful-
    19  ly  sets on foot, instigates, engages in, or in any way furthers any act
    20  of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, is
    21  guilty of a class A misdemeanor and for purposes  of  paragraph  (b)  of
    22  subdivision  one  of section 160.10 of the criminal procedure law, shall
    23  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

        A. 6687                             2
 
     1    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of  the  agriculture  and  markets
     2  law,  as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no
     5  justifiable purpose, [he or she  intentionally  kills  or]  such  person
     6  intentionally  causes serious physical injury to a companion animal with
     7  aggravated cruelty. For purposes of this section,  "aggravated  cruelty"
     8  shall  mean  conduct  which:   (i) is intended to cause extreme physical
     9  pain; or (ii) is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadis-
    10  tic manner.
    11    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
Go to top