Bill Text: NY S03489 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - referred to codes [S03489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03489-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3489
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 10, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  making  conviction  of
         assault of a social worker a felony
         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 632 of
    2  the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, [fireman or]  FIRE-
    4              FIGHTER,  emergency  medical services professional OR SOCIAL
    5              WORKER.
    6    A person is guilty of assault on  a  peace  officer,  police  officer,
    7  [fireman  or]  FIREFIGHTER,  emergency  medical services professional OR
    8  SOCIAL WORKER when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police offi-
    9  cer, a [fireman] FIREFIGHTER, including a [fireman]  FIREFIGHTER  acting
   10  as  a  paramedic or emergency medical technician administering first aid
   11  in the course of performance of duty as such [fireman] FIREFIGHTER, [or]
   12  an emergency medical service  paramedic  or  emergency  medical  service
   13  technician[,]  OR SOCIAL WORKER from performing a lawful duty, he OR SHE
   14  causes serious physical injury to such peace  officer,  police  officer,
   15  [fireman] FIREFIGHTER, paramedic [or], technician OR SOCIAL WORKER.
   16    Assault  on a peace officer, police officer, [fireman or] FIREFIGHTER,
   17  emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER is  a  class  C
   18  felony.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   20  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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