Bill Text: NY S04687 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04687 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04687-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4687

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 services 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  services
     5             worker.
     6    A  person  is  guilty  of  assault on a peace officer, police officer,
     7  firefighter [or], emergency  medical  services  professional  or  social
     8  services  worker  when,  with  intent to prevent a peace officer, police
     9  officer, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or
    10  emergency medical technician administering first aid in  the  course  of
    11  performance  of  duty  as  such  firefighter,  [or] an emergency medical
    12  service paramedic or emergency medical service technician[,]  or  social
    13  services  worker from performing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious
    14  physical injury to such  peace  officer,  police  officer,  firefighter,
    15  paramedic [or], technician or social services worker.
    16    Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen-
    17  cy  medical services professional or social services worker is a class C
    18  felony.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06017-01-3