Bill Text: NY A01580 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1580 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the causation of serious physical injury to another person while in the course of committing hazing in the first degree.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01580 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01580-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1580
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, SIMON, PICHARDO, DAVILA, RAIA, LAWRENCE,
          BLANKENBUSH, MONTESANO, PALUMBO, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, STEC, THIELE -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding the offense of
          assault in the second degree to  include  the  infliction  of  serious
          physical injury in the course of committing hazing in the first degree
          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
     2  added  by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivi-
     3  sion 15 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. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission of the crime
    14  of hazing in the first degree, as defined  in  section  120.16  of  this
    15  article, he or she, or another participant if there be any, causes seri-
    16  ous physical injury to another person.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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