S 3158 NY
Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes
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Summary
This bill amends New York's Penal Law to add animal fighting to the definition of "criminal activity" for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes. Under current law, enterprise corruption crimes (similar to racketeering or RICO statutes) can be charged against individuals engaged in a pattern of various specified felonies. This bill expands that definition to include animal fighting offenses under Agriculture and Markets Law Section 351, allowing animal fighting to be prosecuted as part of a criminal enterprise. The bill takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.
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Official abstract
Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.
Sponsor (1)
- James Skoufis Democratic · primary
16 coauthors / cosponsors
- Jake Ashby Republican · cosponsor
- Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick Republican · cosponsor
- Stephen T. Chan Republican · cosponsor
- Leroy Comrie Democratic · cosponsor
- Jeremy Cooney Democratic · cosponsor
- Patrick M. Gallivan Republican · cosponsor
- Pete Harckham Democratic · cosponsor
- Monica Martinez Democratic · cosponsor
- Mario Mattera Republican · cosponsor
- Dean Murray Republican · cosponsor
- Robert Ortt Republican · cosponsor
- Anthony H. Palumbo Republican · cosponsor
- Robert Rolison Republican · cosponsor
- Christopher Ryan Democratic · cosponsor
- Lea Webb Democratic · cosponsor
- William Weber Republican · cosponsor
Action history (16)
- Jan 23, 2025 REFERRED TO CODES · upper
- Mar 25, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.615 · upper
- Mar 26, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Mar 27, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- Apr 8, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Apr 8, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Apr 8, 2025 REFERRED TO CODES · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · upper
- Feb 4, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.273 · upper
- Feb 5, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Feb 9, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 5, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 5, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 5, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · lower
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S03158 Summary: BILL NO S03158   SAME AS SAME AS A01816
  SPONSOR SKOUFIS   COSPNSR ASHBY, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, CHAN, COMRIE, COONEY, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM, MARTINEZ, MATTERA, MURRAY, ORTT, PALUMBO, ROLISON, RYAN C, WEBB, WEBER   MLTSPNSR   Amd §460.10, Pen L   Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
3158
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM, MARTINEZ, MURRAY, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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
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