Bill Text: NY A06967 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter, emergency medical services professional, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06967 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06967-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6967 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on a peace offi- cer, police officer, firefighter, emergency medical services profes- sional, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city sanitation work- er 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 476 of 2 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], 4 emergency medical services professional, sanitation enforce- 5 ment agent or New York city sanitation worker in the first 6 degree. 7 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer, 8 firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional, sanitation 9 enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker in the first degree 10 when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a fire- 11 fighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic [or], emergency 12 medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance 13 of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic 14 [or], emergency medical service technician, sanitation enforcement agent 15 or New York city sanitation worker from performing a lawful duty, he or 16 she causes serious physical injury to such peace officer, police offi- 17 cer, firefighter, paramedic [or], technician, sanitation enforcement 18 agent or New York city sanitation worker. 19 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen- 20 cy medical services professional, sanitation enforcement agent or New 21 York city sanitation worker in the first degree is a class C felony. 22 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.08-a to read 23 as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08012-01-9A. 6967 2 1 § 120.08-a Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter, 2 emergency medical services professional, sanitation 3 enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker in the 4 second degree. 5 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer, 6 firefighter, emergency medical services professional, sanitation 7 enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker in the second 8 degree when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a 9 firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency 10 medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance 11 of duty as such firefighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or 12 emergency medical service technician, sanitation enforcement agent, or 13 New York city sanitation worker from performing a lawful duty, he or she 14 causes physical injury to such peace officer, police officer, firefight- 15 er, paramedic, technician, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city 16 sanitation worker. 17 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter, emergency 18 medical services professional, sanitation enforcement agent or New York 19 city sanitation worker in the second degree is a class D felony. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 21 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.