S.599

Establishes Animal Cruelty Offender Registry; prohibits purchase, adoption, and breeding of animals by animal cruelty offenders.

The bill establishes a Statewide animal cruelty offender registry that would require the continuing registration of animal cruelty offenders and allow for the public disclosure of certain information pertaining to these offenders. The bill would require the Attorney General to maintain a central registry of all registrations submitted in accordance with this bill’s provisions, and would additionally be required to develop a system for making certain offender information from the central registry available to the public on the Internet.