A 1116: Relates to sentencing for the crime of aggravated cruelty to animals; removes the two year imprisonment cap.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1116 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging 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. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tucker's law". 2 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets 3 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of 6 this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term 8 of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi- 9 nite sentence, which may not exceed two years]. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01471-01-5