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S3158 • 2025

Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes

Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes

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Sponsor
James Skoufis
Last action
2026-05-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes

Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

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. 2026-02-09 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-02-05 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-02-04 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.273

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  8. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  9. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

  10. 2025-04-08 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  11. 2025-04-08 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  12. 2025-04-08 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  13. 2025-03-27 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  14. 2025-03-26 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  15. 2025-03-25 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.615

  16. 2025-01-23 Senate

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes
Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          3158

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM, MARTINEZ, MURRAY, ROLISON -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding animal fighting  to
          the  definition  of  "criminal  activity"  for  purposes of enterprise
          corruption crimes

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 460.10 of the
     2  penal law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b)  Any  felony  set  forth  elsewhere  in the laws of this state and
     5  defined by the tax law relating to alcoholic beverage, cigarette,  gaso-
     6  line  and  similar motor fuel taxes; article seventy-one of the environ-
     7  mental conservation law relating to water pollution, hazardous waste  or
     8  substances  hazardous or acutely hazardous to public health or safety of
     9  the environment; article twenty-three-A  of  the  general  business  law
    10  relating  to  prohibited acts concerning stocks, bonds and other securi-
    11  ties, article twenty-two of the general business law concerning  monopo-
    12  lies, SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW
    13  RELATING TO ANIMAL FIGHTING.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04767-01-5