Bill Text: NY S01946 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01946 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01946-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1946
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 17, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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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