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Senate Bill S3486

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to injury against females by males age eighteen or older and second degree assault

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2013-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง120.05, Pen L

2013-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that where a male age eighteen years or more intends to cause physical injury to a female and causes physical injury to such female, he shall be guilty of assault in the second degree.

2013-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S3486 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3486

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 4, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- 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 injury against females  by
  males age eighteen or older and second degree assault

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
by chapter 68 of the laws of 2008, is amended and a new  subdivision  13
is added to read as follows:
  12. With intent to cause physical injury to a person who is sixty-five
years  of age or older, he or she causes such injury to such person, and
the actor is more than ten years younger than such person[.]; OR
  13. BEING AGE EIGHTEEN OR OLDER MORE AND MALE, WITH  INTENT  TO  CAUSE
PHYSICAL  INJURY  TO  A FEMALE PERSON, HE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH
FEMALE PERSON.
  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.
                                                           LBD07184-01-3

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