Bill Text: NY A08221 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes assault on a corrections officer as a class C felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A08221 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08221-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8221

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to including corrections
          officers in certain assault charges

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 476
     2  of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer,  corrections  offi-
     4             cer, firefighter or emergency medical services professional.
     5    A  person  is  guilty  of  assault on a peace officer, police officer,
     6  corrections officer, firefighter or emergency medical  services  profes-
     7  sional  when,  with  intent  to prevent a peace officer, police officer,
     8  corrections officer, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as  a
     9  paramedic or emergency medical technician administering first aid in the
    10  course  of  performance  of  duty  as  such firefighter, or an emergency
    11  medical service paramedic or emergency medical service technician,  from
    12  performing  a  lawful  duty, he or she causes serious physical injury to
    13  such peace officer, police officer,  corrections  officer,  firefighter,
    14  paramedic or technician.
    15    Assault on a peace officer, police officer, corrections officer, fire-
    16  fighter or emergency medical services professional is a class C felony.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05789-01-3