Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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197
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,
GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, ROLISON, TEDISCO, WEBER
-- 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 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Tucker's law".
3 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets
4 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of
7 this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
8 one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term
9 of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi-
10 nite sentence, which may not exceed two years].
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00764-01-5
