S 4633 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to adding animal fighting as a criminal act when referring to enterprise corruption

S 4633 amends New York's penal law to explicitly include animal fighting as a criminal act under enterprise corruption statutes. This change directly affects individuals or groups operating illegal animal fighting rings by making such activities subject to prosecution under the same enterprise corruption laws used for crimes like tax fraud or environmental violations. The bill modifies Section 460.10 of the penal law to add animal fighting to a list of offenses that can be charged as part of an organized criminal enterprise. This provides prosecutors with a specific legal pathway to address animal fighting through the enterprise corruption framework. The bill was referred to the Codes committee on February 10, 2025.
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Introduced Feb 10, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026
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Alexis Weik
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