STATE OF NEW YORK
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1116
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to sentenc-
ing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tucker's law".
2 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
3 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
6 this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
7 one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term
8 of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi-
9 nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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