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NY A00871

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/8/2025

Primary Sponsor

Linda Rosenthal

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits vivisection at all colleges, universities, professional, proprietary, and graduate schools in New York when an alternative scientifically and educationally satisfactory method exists

  • Defines vivisection as experimentation through surgery on a living organism to view living internal structure

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Higher Education1/8/2025

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