A3050 • 2025

Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals

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Sponsor: Jen Lunsford
Last action: 2026-05-13
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals

Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals 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.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals 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.

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Bill History

2026-05-13 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-03-31 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE
2025-01-23 Assembly
REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

Official Summary Text

Relates to the sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals
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.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          3050

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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