Bill Text: NY S06853 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the assault of certain public agents while they are performing their duties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - referred to codes [S06853 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S06853-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6853--A I N S E N A T E March 20, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the assault of certain public agents while they are performing their duties 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 120.08-a 2 to read as follows: 3 S 120.08-A CRIMINALLY IMPEDING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PARAMEDIC OR 4 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN IN THE PERFORMANCE OF 5 HIS OR HER DUTIES WHILE RENDERING PATIENT CARE. 6 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINALLY IMPEDING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE 7 PARAMEDIC OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN IN THE PERFORMANCE OF 8 HIS OR HER DUTIES WHILE RENDERING PATIENT CARE WHEN WITH INTENT TO 9 IMPEDE AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PARAMEDIC OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL 10 SERVICE TECHNICIAN FROM PERFORMING HIS OR HER DUTIES, HE OR SHE STRIKES, 11 BITES, KICKS, PUNCHES, CHOKES, BEATS, OR HITS AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL 12 SERVICE PARAMEDIC OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN WHILE SUCH 13 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PARAMEDIC OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNI- 14 CIAN IS PERFORMING A LAWFUL OR ASSIGNED DUTY AND RENDERING PATIENT CARE. 15 CRIMINALLY IMPEDING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PARAMEDIC OR EMERGEN- 16 CY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES 17 WHILE RENDERING PATIENT CARE IS A CLASS D FELONY. 18 S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 70.02 of the penal law, 19 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 20 follows: 21 (c) Class D violent felony offenses: an attempt to commit any of the 22 class C felonies set forth in paragraph (b); reckless assault of a child 23 as defined in section 120.02, assault in the second degree as defined in 24 section 120.05, CRIMINALLY IMPEDING AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE 25 PARAMEDIC OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TECHNICIAN IN THE PERFORMANCE OF 26 HIS OR HER DUTIES WHILE RENDERING PATIENT CARE AS DEFINED IN SECTION EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14445-02-4 S. 6853--A 2 1 120.08-A, menacing a police officer or peace officer as defined in 2 section 120.18, stalking in the first degree, as defined in subdivision 3 one of section 120.60, strangulation in the second degree as defined in 4 section 121.12, rape in the second degree as defined in section 130.30, 5 criminal sexual act in the second degree as defined in section 130.45, 6 sexual abuse in the first degree as defined in section 130.65, course of 7 sexual conduct against a child in the second degree as defined in 8 section 130.80, aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree as defined 9 in section 130.66, facilitating a sex offense with a controlled 10 substance as defined in section 130.90, criminal possession of a weapon 11 in the third degree as defined in subdivision five, six, seven, eight, 12 nine or ten of section 265.02, criminal sale of a firearm in the third 13 degree as defined in section 265.11, intimidating a victim or witness in 14 the second degree as defined in section 215.16, soliciting or providing 15 support for an act of terrorism in the second degree as defined in 16 section 490.10, and making a terroristic threat as defined in section 17 490.20, falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as defined in 18 section 240.60, placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first 19 degree as defined in section 240.62, placing a false bomb or hazardous 20 substance in a sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility or 21 enclosed shopping mall as defined in section 240.63, and aggravated 22 unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the first degree as defined in 23 section 405.18. 24 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 25 have become a law.