New York S 5017: Relates to prohibiting the operation of establishments where animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food

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S05017 Summary:

BILL NOS05017 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02421

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MAYER, SALAZAR, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §96-ee, Ag & Mkts L

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Prohibits the operation of establishments where animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food; establishes a task force on public health risks and animal welfare concerns of slaughterhouses.

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BILL NOS05017 

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02/18/2025REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5017

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, BRISPORT, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MAYER
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Agriculture

 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to prohib-
 iting the operation of establishments where animals and/or fowls are
 slaughtered and butchered for food

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that
 2 emergency measures must be enacted to help prevent the spread of zoonot-
 3 ic and other infectious diseases. Experts throughout the world have
 4 concluded that the COVID-19 crisis is likely attributable to a live
 5 animal market. Inspection reports from the department of agriculture
 6 and markets indicate ongoing health, safety and welfare problems at New
 7 York's markets. Hundreds of thousands of human lives have already been
 8 lost and millions of people have been sickened during the COVID-19
 9 pandemic. The purpose of this law is to eliminate one potential vector
 10 for the transmission of zoonotic diseases, live animal markets, and the
 11 suffering it causes therefrom at least until there is further examina-
 12 tion by infectious disease experts of the nexus between zoonotic
 13 diseases and live animal markets.
 14 § 2. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
 15 section 96-ee to read as follows:
 16 § 96-ee. Prohibition of the operation of establishments where animals
 17 and/or fowls are slaughtered for food. 1. Notwithstanding any provision
 18 of law to the contrary:
 19 (a) the commissioner shall not license any person, firm, partnership
 20 or corporation to operate any place or establishment where animals
 21 and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food;
 22 (b) the commissioner shall immediately suspend the license of any
 23 person, firm, partnership or corporation that currently holds a license

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05659-01-5

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 1 issued by the commissioner to operate any place or establishment where
 2 animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food; and
 3 (c) no person, firm, partnership or corporation that currently holds a
 4 license issued by the commissioner to operate any place or establishment
 5 where animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food shall
 6 operate such establishment after the effective date of this section.
 7 2. (a) A task force on public health risks and animal welfare concerns
 8 of slaughterhouses is hereby established. Such task force shall conduct
 9 and complete a thorough examination of facilities heretofore licensed by
 10 the department under this article and their effect on public health and
 11 safety and animal welfare.
 12 (b) Such task force shall consist of seven members, to be appointed as
 13 follows: one member to be appointed by the governor; two members to be
 14 appointed by the temporary president of the senate; two members to be
 15 appointed by the speaker of the assembly; one member to be appointed by
 16 the commissioner or such commissioner's designee; and one member to be
 17 appointed by the commissioner of health or such commissioner's designee.
 18 Appointees shall have expertise in infectious diseases, and, in partic-
 19 ular, the potential spread of disea