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Senate Bill S4086
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 21st Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
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2019-S4086 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S4086 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4086 SPONSOR: PARKER TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to making conviction of assault of a social services worker a felony PURPOSE OF BILL: Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section one. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 632 of the laws of the 1996, is amended to make the conviction of a ssault on a social worker which prevents them from performing their lawful duty a felony. JUSTIFICATION:
2019-S4086 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4086 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 27, 2019 ___________ 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: Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER. A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical service technician[,] OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER from performing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious physical injury to such peace officer, police officer, firefighter, paramedic [or], technician OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER. Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen- cy medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER is a class C felony. § 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. LBD09337-01-9
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