Bill Text: NY A10892 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-25 - referred to codes [A10892 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10892-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10892 IN ASSEMBLY May 25, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace 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. 4 A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a 5 peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to a 6 person whom he knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or 7 a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his official duties, 8 he causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instru-9ment]. 10 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class 11 B felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05702-01-7