Bill Text: NY A04525 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A04525 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04525-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4525--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CASTRO, KOLB, LUPARDO, McDONOUGH, HOOPER, BENE-
         DETTO, JAFFEE,  LAVINE,  P. RIVERA,  CLARK,  FINCH,  V. LOPEZ,  SPANO,
         McKEVITT,  GUNTHER  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CALHOUN, CROUCH,
         CUSICK, GALEF, GIBSON, GIGLIO, MAGEE,  MARKEY,  MAYERSOHN,  J. MILLER,
         PHEFFER,  THIELE,  TOWNS,  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to making conviction of
         assault of a social services worker a felony
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 632 of
    2  the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emer-
    4             gency   medical  services  professional  OR  SOCIAL  SERVICES
    5             WORKER.
    6    A person is guilty of assault on  a  peace  officer,  police  officer,
    7  fireman [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES
    8  WORKER  when,  with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a
    9  fireman, including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency  medical
   10  technician  administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
   11  as such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic or emergen-
   12  cy medical service technician[,] OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER from perform-
   13  ing a lawful duty, he OR SHE causes  serious  physical  injury  to  such
   14  peace  officer,  police  officer, fireman, paramedic [or], technician OR
   15  SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER.
   16    Assault on a peace officer, police officer,  fireman  [or],  emergency
   17  medical  services  professional  OR  SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER is a class C
   18  felony.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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