Bill Text: NY A00371 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when he or she intends to cause physical injury to an employee of New York state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a public benefit corporation while such employee is performing his or her duties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A00371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00371-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           371

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaults  against  certain
          employees of state and local government agencies

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
     2  by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivision  15
     3  is added to read as follows:
     4    14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
     5  section  eighty-nine-t  of  the  general business law, from performing a
     6  lawful duty pursuant to article three of  the  civil  practice  law  and
     7  rules,  or  intentionally,  as retaliation against such a process server
     8  for the performance of the process  server's  duties  pursuant  to  such
     9  article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
    10  evincing  the  actor's  intent  that  the animal prevent or obstruct the
    11  lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the  process
    12  server, he or she causes physical injury to such process server[.]; or
    13    15.  With  intent  to cause physical injury to an employee of New York
    14  state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a
    15  public benefit corporation, he or she causes  physical  injury  to  such
    16  employee while such employee is performing his or her duties.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01603-01-3