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S6573 • 2025

Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads

Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Michelle Hinchey
Last action
2026-05-29
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads

Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.

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. 2026-05-29 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-05-29 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  4. 2026-05-12 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-05-11 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-05-07 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.997

  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. 2025-06-11 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  11. 2025-06-11 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1821

  12. 2025-06-11 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  13. 2025-06-11 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  14. 2025-06-11 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

  15. 2025-06-06 Senate

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  16. 2025-06-06 Senate

    PRINT NUMBER 6573A

  17. 2025-05-14 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  18. 2025-03-17 Senate

    REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

Official Summary Text

Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads
Requires municipal employees to attempt to identify and notify the owners of a deceased dog or cat recovered on public roads by such municipal employees.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6573

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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  the
          recovery of a deceased dog or cat on public roads

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

     1    Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
     2  section 377-b to read as follows:
     3    §  377-B. RECOVERY OF A DECEASED DOG OR CAT ON PUBLIC ROADS. ANY STATE
     4  OR MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL THAT RECOVERS THE BODY OF A DOG OR CAT KILLED ON A
     5  PUBLIC ROAD SHALL MAKE A REASONABLE EFFORT TO DETECT INDICIA  OF  OWNER-
     6  SHIP,  SUCH  AS  TAGS,  LICENSE NUMBERS, OR OTHER SUCH IDENTIFIERS ON OR
     7  ABOUT THE ANIMAL AND SHALL MAKE A REASONABLE EFFORT TO NOTIFY THE  OWNER
     8  OR AN ANIMAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE CONCERNING THE ANIMAL'S DEATH.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03746-01-5