Bill Text: NY S02078 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts "Ildefonso Romero's law" to establish the felony offenses of aggravated assault for the causation of serious physical injury to or death of, as the case may be, of any person, with intent to cause physical injury to such person or a third person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-13 - referred to codes [S02078 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02078-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2078 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- 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 establishing the felony offense of aggravated assault The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Ildefonso Romero's law". 3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.00-a to read 4 as follows: 5 § 120.00-a Aggravated assault. 6 A person is guilty of aggravated assault when: 7 1. With intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she 8 causes serious physical injury or death to such person or to a third 9 person; or 10 2. He or she recklessly causes serious physical injury or death to 11 another person; or 12 3. With criminal negligence, he or she causes serious physical injury 13 or death to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous 14 instrument. 15 Aggravated assault is a class E felony. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 17 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. LBD07338-01-7
