Bill Text: NY S04759 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility, for the intentional causation of physical injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certified by the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04759 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04759-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4759 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 14, 2023 ___________ 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 establishing the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.05-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 120.05-a Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental 4 disability facility. 5 A person is guilty of assault of a patient in a mental health or 6 developmental disability facility when with intent to cause physical 7 injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certi- 8 fied by the office of mental health or the office for people with devel- 9 opmental disabilities, he or she causes such injury to such person. 10 Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability 11 facility is a class C felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 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. LBD08734-01-3
