STATE OF NEW YORK
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3365--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to intentional physical inju-
ries to a police officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 14 to read as follows:
3 14. With the intent to cause physical injury to a specific police
4 officer, as police officer is defined pursuant to subdivision thirty-
5 four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, due to a belief or
6 perception regarding such police officer's involvement in a previous
7 arrest of such person, he or she causes such injury to such police offi-
8 cer or a third person.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 120.10 of the penal law, as amended by
10 chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is
11 added to read as follows:
12 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
13 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or another
14 participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person
15 other than one of the participants[.]; or
16 5. With intent to cause serious physical injury to a specific police
17 officer, as police officer is defined pursuant to subdivision thirty-
18 four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, due to a belief or
19 perception regarding such police officer's involvement in a previous
20 arrest of such person, he or she causes such injury to such police offi-
21 cer or to a third person.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
23 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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