Bill Text: NY A04724 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in codes [A04724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04724-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4724

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  crime  of  aggravated
          assault upon a police officer or a peace 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 chapter  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 intent to cause serious physical  injury  to  a
     6  person whom he knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or
     7  a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his official duties,
     8  he  causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instru-
     9  ment].
    10    Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
    11  B felony.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06868-01-1