S 197: Enacts "Tucker's law"; removes the provision that provides that any term of imprisonment for a violation of aggravated cruelty to animals may not exceed two years.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 197 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, ROLISON, TEDISCO, WEBER -- 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 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. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Tucker's law". 3 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 353-a of the agriculture and markets 4 law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 3. Aggravated cruelty to animals is a felony. A defendant convicted of 7 this offense shall be sentenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision 8 one of section 55.10 of the penal law [provided, however, that any term 9 of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section shall be a defi- 10 nite sentence, which may not exceed two years]. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00764-01-5