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NY A00871
Bill
Status
1/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
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Prohibits vivisection at all colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools in New York when an alternative scientifically and educationally satisfactory method exists
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Defines vivisection as experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure
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Defines "scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy" as a teaching approach that accomplishes the same educational goal or is used by a majority of other higher education institutions for the same purpose
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Takes effect 180 days after becoming law
Legislative Description
Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure.
Last Action
referred to higher education
1/7/2026