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NY A09101
Bill
Status
9/12/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
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Requires animal testing facilities that no longer need a nonhuman primate to consult with their attending veterinarian and consider appropriate care options, including offering the animal for release to a certified sanctuary accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
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Mandates that testing facilities make reasonable efforts to offer unneeded nonhuman primates to certified sanctuaries, though sanctuaries have no duty to accept animals offered to them
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Requires higher education research facilities receiving public money (including tax-exempt status) or facilities collaborating with higher education institutions to post annual reports on their websites within 90 days of the law taking effect
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Annual website disclosures must include the number of nonhuman primates by species placed in certified sanctuaries during the previous year and the names of those sanctuaries
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Defines "nonhuman primate" as all nonhuman members of the order Primates and "certified sanctuary" as facilities accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries
Legislative Description
Relates to nonhuman primates in testing and research facilities; provides that an animal testing facility no longer in need of a nonhuman primate in its possession shall consider options for and determine the appropriate care of such nonhuman primate, including releasing such nonhuman primate to a certified sanctuary; provides that a higher education research facility that receives public money, or a facility that provides research in collaboration with a higher education facility, shall annually publish certain information on its website concerning nonhuman primates at such facility.
Last Action
referred to health
1/7/2026