Bill Text: NY A10116 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Ildefonso Romero's law" to establish the felony offense of aggravated assault for the causation of serious physical injury to or death of, as the case may be, any person, with intent to cause physical injury to such person or a third person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - referred to codes [A10116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10116-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10116

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 12, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  establishing  the  felony
          offense of aggravated assault

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Ildefonso Romero's law".
     3    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.00-a to read
     4  as follows:
     5  § 120.00-a Aggravated assault.
     6    A person is guilty of aggravated assault when:
     7    1.  With  intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she
     8  causes serious physical injury or death to such person  or  to  a  third
     9  person; or
    10    2.  He  or  she  recklessly causes serious physical injury or death to
    11  another person; or
    12    3. With criminal negligence, he or she causes serious physical  injury
    13  or  death  to  another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous
    14  instrument.
    15    Aggravated assault is a class E felony.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD15160-01-0