Bill Text: NY S04578 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04578-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4578

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  making  conviction  of
          assault of a social worker a felony

          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, firefighter [or],
     4             emergency medical services professional or social worker.
     5    A person is guilty of assault on  a  peace  officer,  police  officer,
     6  firefighter  [or],  emergency  medical  services  professional or social
     7  worker when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police  officer,  a
     8  firefighter,  including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency
     9  medical technician administering first aid in the course of  performance
    10  of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic
    11  or  emergency  medical  service  technician[,]  or  social  worker  from
    12  performing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious  physical  injury  to
    13  such peace officer, police officer, firefighter, paramedic [or], techni-
    14  cian or social worker.
    15    Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen-
    16  cy medical services professional or social worker is a class C felony.
    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.
                                                                   LBD06327-01-1