Bill Text: NY S05599 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5599 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the crimes of aggravated assault upon a police officer in the first and second degrees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S05599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05599-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5599--A
            Cal. No. 952
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 18, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. NOZZOLIO, AVELLA, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated assault upon 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 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 283
     2  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer  in
     4             the first degree.
     5    1. A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
     6  peace  officer  in  the  first degree when, with intent to cause serious
     7  physical injury to a person whom he or she knows  or  reasonably  should
     8  know  to be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of
     9  performing his or her official duties, he or she causes such  injury  by
    10  means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument; or
    11    2. A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
    12  peace  officer  in  the  first degree when, with intent to cause serious
    13  physical injury to a person whom  he or she knows or  reasonably  should
    14  know  to be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of
    15  performing his or her official duties, and when such person is aided  by
    16  one  or  more other persons actually present, at an assembly in a public
    17  place as defined by article two hundred forty of this part,  he  or  she
    18  causes serious physical injury to such police officer or peace officer.
    19    Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
    20  B felony.
    21    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.11-a to read
    22  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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