Bill Text: NY A00498 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 498

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A00498 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00498-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           498

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated assault upon a
          police officer

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

     1    Section  1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by section 283
     2  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
     4    A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police  officer  or  a
     5  peace officer when[, with]:
     6    (a)  With  intent to cause serious physical injury to a person whom he
     7  or she knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace
     8  officer engaged in the course of performing his or her official  duties,
     9  he  or  she  causes such injury by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous
    10  instrument; or
    11    (b) With intent to cause physical injury to a person whom  he  or  she
    12  knows  or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace offi-
    13  cer engaged in the course of performing his or her official  duties  and
    14  when  aided by two or more other persons actually present at an assembly
    15  in a public place, as such term is defined in subdivision one of section
    16  240.00 of this part, he or she causes physical  injury  to  such  police
    17  officer or peace officer.
    18    Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
    19  B felony.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01540-01-3