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Senate Bill S2704

2013-2014 Legislative Session

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

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2013-S2704 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง120.08, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5345
2015-2016: S2509
2017-2018: S2259
2019-2020: S4086
2021-2022: S3305
2023-2024: S4687
2025-2026: S4006

2013-S2704 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2013-S2704 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2704 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2704

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 23, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. PARKER, ADAMS -- 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:

  Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 632 of
the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
S 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emer-
           gency   medical  services  professional  OR  SOCIAL  SERVICES
           WORKER.
  A person is guilty of assault on  a  peace  officer,  police  officer,
fireman [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES
WORKER  when,  with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a
fireman, including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency  medical
technician  administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
as such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic or emergen-
cy medical service technician[,] OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER from perform-
ing a lawful duty, he OR SHE causes  serious  physical  injury  to  such
peace  officer,  police  officer, fireman, paramedic [or], technician OR
SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER.
  Assault on a peace officer, police officer,  fireman  [or],  emergency
medical  services  professional  OR  SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER is a class C
felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02210-01-3

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