New York A 1816: Adds animal fighting to the definition of criminal activity for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes

Status: REFERRED TO CODES (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 1816

Sponsors: Linda Rosenthal, Alex Bores, Andrew Hevesi, Angelo Santabarbara, Anna Kelles, Charles Lavine, Chris Tague, Dana Levenberg, Deborah Glick, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Jen Lunsford, John T. McDonald III, Jonathan Jacobson, Jonathan Rivera, Karen McMahon, Karines Reyes, Matthew Slater, Patrick Chludzinski, Paula Kay, Phil Steck, Rebecca Seawright, William Colton, Yudelka Tapia

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A01816 Summary:

BILL NOA01816 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03158

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRLunsford, Jacobson, Steck, Glick, Rivera, Kelles, Santabarbara, Slater, Bores, Kay, Chludzinski,
 McMahon, Reyes, Dinowitz, Tague, Colton, Levenberg, Lavine, Tapia, Hevesi, McDonald, Seawright,
 Stern

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §460.10, Pen L

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Includes animal fighting as a criminal act for purposes of enterprise corruption crimes.

Go to top A01816 Actions:

BILL NOA01816 

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01/14/2025referred to codes

05/28/2025reported referred to rules

01/07/2026referred to codes

Go to topA01816 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:21/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye

CookAyeReillyAye

SimonAyeMikulinAye

WeprinAyeTannousisAye

HevesiAyeAngelinoAye

SeawrightAyeMolitorAye

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAbsent

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Go to topA01816 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA01816 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1816

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, LUNSFORD, JACOBSON, STECK, GLICK --
 read once and referred 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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