S 3459 NY

Relates to injury of domestic and companion animals by motorists

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 27, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2026) REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Summary

Requires motorists to exercise care to avoid colliding with any domestic or companion animal; increases fines and penalties for causing such injury and for leaving the scene of injury to certain animals without reporting.

Sponsor (1)

Andrew Gounardes Democratic · primary

2 coauthors / cosponsors

Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick Republican · cosponsor
Monica Martinez Democratic · cosponsor

Action history (2)

Jan 27, 2025 REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION · upper
Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION · upper

Text versions (2)

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S3459 · HTML
S3459 · PDF

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