STATE OF NEW YORK
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2026
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no
5 justifiable purpose, [he or she] such person intentionally kills or
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 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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