STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5179 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TANNOUSIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to aggra- vated cruelty to animals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 353-a of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as added by chapter 118 of the laws of 1999, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 1. A person is guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals when, with no 5 justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally 6 causes serious physical injury to [a companion] an animal with aggra- 7 vated cruelty. For purposes of this section, "aggravated cruelty" shall 8 mean conduct which: (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or 9 (ii) is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic 10 manner. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05150-01-3