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S197 • 2025

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

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

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Sponsor
Monica Martinez
Last action
2026-05-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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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.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-05 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-05-05 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-05-05 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  4. 2026-03-12 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-03-11 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-03-10 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.511

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

  10. 2025-04-08 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  11. 2025-04-08 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  12. 2025-04-08 Assembly

    REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

  13. 2025-03-20 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  14. 2025-03-19 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  15. 2025-03-18 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.571

  16. 2025-01-08 Senate

    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.

Current Bill Text

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

                                           197

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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