A 1816: Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1816 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, LUNSFORD, JACOBSON, STECK, GLICK -- read once and referred 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