Bill Text: NY S04447 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04447 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S04447-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4447 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 1, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 assaulting a retired police officer THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 120.10 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdi- 3 vision 5 is added to read as follows: 4 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted 5 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or another 6 participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a person 7 other than one of the participants[.] ; OR 8 5. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO A SPECIFIC RETIRED 9 POLICE OFFICER, AS POLICE OFFICER IS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION 10 THIRTY-FOUR OF SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW, DUE TO A 11 BELIEF OR PERCEPTION REGARDING SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER'S INVOLVEMENT 12 IN A PREVIOUS ARREST OF SUCH PERSON WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY, HE OR SHE 13 CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH RETIRED POLICE OFFICER OR TO A THIRD PERSON. 14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07416-02-3