New York A 2092: Relates to requiring licensed slaughterhouses to have a closed circuit camera and television system in all areas with live animals

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A02092 Summary:

BILL NOA02092 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§96-a & 96-b, add §96-f-1, Ag & Mkts L

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Relates to requiring licensed slaughterhouses to have a closed circuit camera and television system in all areas with live animals; establishes a reporting requirement pursuant to inspections where a violation is found.

Go to top A02092 Actions:

BILL NOA02092 

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01/15/2025referred to agriculture

01/07/2026referred to agriculture

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Go to topA02092 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2092

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Agriculture

 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
 ing licensed slaughterhouses to have closed circuit camera and tele-
 vision systems and establishing a reporting requirement pursuant to
 inspections where a violation is found

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 96-a of the agriculture and markets law, as amended
 2 by chapter 573 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 96-a. Declaration of policy and purpose. Whereas unsanitary condi-
 4 tions in the slaughtering of animals and fowl for food have been found
 5 to exist in this state, and whereas such conditions endanger the health
 6 and welfare of the people and animals and fowl of the state, it is here-
 7 by declared to be a matter of legislative determination that the super-
 8 vision of the slaughtering of animals and fowl is in the public inter-
 9 est, and that this article is enacted in the exercise of the police
 10 power of the state and its purposes are the protection of the public
 11 health.
 12 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 96-b of the agriculture and markets law,
 13 as amended by chapter 395 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 14 follows:
 15 1. No person, firm, partnership or corporation not granted inspection
 16 pursuant to the federal meat inspection act, the federal poultry
 17 products inspection act, article five-B or article five-D of this chap-
 18 ter shall operate any place or establishment where animals or fowls are
 19 slaughtered or butchered for food unless such person, firm, partnership
 20 or corporation be licensed by the commissioner. In addition to any other
 21 requirements established by the commissioner, such license shall prohib-
 22 it the slaughter or butchering by slaughterhouses of domesticated dog
 23 and domesticated cat to create food, meat, meat by-products or meat food

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05852-01-5

 A. 2092 2

 1 products for human or animal consumption. Such license shall require
 2 any person, firm, partnership, or corporation that has a license pursu-
 3 ant to this article to install and operate a closed circuit camera and
 4 television system in all areas where live animals are present. Such
 5 cameras shall be placed to ensure there is a complete and clear view of
 6 all areas containing live animals. The commissioner and his or her
 7 designees, the police and other law enforcement officers authorized to
 8 enforce article twenty-six of this chapter or other laws pertaining to
 9 the humane treatment of animals, cruelty to animals, or endangering the
 10 life or health of animals, shall have unrestricted access to the footage
 11 from such closed circuit camera and television systems. Recordings for
 12 each day shall be retained by the licensee for at least six months
 13 before it can be deleted. An application for license shall be made upon
 14 a form prescribed by the commissioner on or before the first day of May
 15 in every other year, for a two year license period commencing upon the
 16 following first day of June. With the application there shall be paid a
 17 license fee of two hundred dollars.
 18 § 3. The opening paragraph of section 96-b of the agriculture and
 19 markets law,