Bill Text: NY S04311 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the offense of assault in the second degree to include the infliction of physical injury to employees of domestic violence shelters and persons seeking shelter in such shelters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-18 - referred to codes [S04311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04311-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4311
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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 physical
          injury to employees of domestic violence shelters and persons  seeking
          shelter in such shelters
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 3-d to read as follows:
     3    3-d. (a) With intent to prevent an employee of domestic violence shel-
     4  ters  from  performing  his  or  her  lawful duties while located on the
     5  grounds, real property, or a building owned,  managed,  or  operated  by
     6  such  domestic  violence  shelters  or  within five hundred feet of such
     7  shelters, he or she causes physical injury to such employee; and
     8    (b) with intent to prevent persons seeking services from such domestic
     9  violence shelters and/or residing in such shelters  from  accessing  the
    10  grounds,  real  property,  or  a building owned, managed, or operated by
    11  such domestic violence shelters or within  five  hundred  feet  of  such
    12  shelters, he or she causes physical injury to such person; or
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    14  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.
                                                                   LBD09754-01-7