A 871: Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 871 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, COOK, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting vivisec- tion at colleges and universities in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 819. Vivisection prohibited. 1. For purposes of this section: 4 (a) "Vivisection" means experimentation through surgery on a living 5 organism to view living internal structure. 6 (b) "Scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy" 7 means a teaching method or strategy that accomplishes the goal of the 8 proposed education or training or teaching method or strategy that is 9 used by a majority of other institutions of higher education to accom- 10 plish the same goal. 11 2. Vivisection is prohibited at all colleges, universities, profes- 12 sional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where an alterna- 13 tive scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy 14 exists. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02961-01-5