Bill Text: NY A01580 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the causation of serious physical injury to another person while in the course of committing hazing in the first degree.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01580 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01580-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1580 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JONES, SIMON, PICHARDO, DAVILA, RAIA, LAWRENCE, BLANKENBUSH, MONTESANO, PALUMBO, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, STEC, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding the offense of assault in the second degree to include the infliction of serious physical injury in the course of committing hazing in the first degree The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as 2 added by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivi- 3 sion 15 is added to read as follows: 4 14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in 5 section eighty-nine-t of the general business law, from performing a 6 lawful duty pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and 7 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such a process server 8 for the performance of the process server's duties pursuant to such 9 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal 10 evincing the actor's intent that the animal prevent or obstruct the 11 lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process 12 server, he or she causes physical injury to such process server[.]; or 13 15. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission of the crime 14 of hazing in the first degree, as defined in section 120.16 of this 15 article, he or she, or another participant if there be any, causes seri- 16 ous physical injury to another person. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 18 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. LBD03002-01-9