STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10166 IN ASSEMBLY March 22, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of serious offense for purposes of possession of a firearm The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 17 of section 265.00 of the penal law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) an offense which would constitute a felony offense against an 4 animal pursuant to section three hundred fifty-one, three hundred 5 fifty-three-a, three hundred sixty, or three hundred sixty-one of the 6 agriculture and markets law or section 242.15 of this part. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15060-01-8