Assembly Bill A4996

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the penalties for assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A4996 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.05, 120.08 & 120.11, add §120.05-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10989
2023-2024: A2180

2021-A4996 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalties for assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians causing physical injury or serious physical injury.

2021-A4996 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4996
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing  the  penalties
   for assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters and emer-
   gency medical technicians
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of  section  120.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  267  of  the  laws  of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, [a police officer,]  prose-
 cutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the crimi-
 nal  procedure  law,  registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public
 health sanitarian, New York city public  health  sanitarian,  sanitation
 enforcement  agent,  New  York  city  sanitation  worker, a firefighter,
 including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical tech-
 nician administering first aid in the course of performance of  duty  as
 such  firefighter,  an  emergency medical service paramedic or emergency
 medical service technician, or medical or related personnel in a  hospi-
 tal  emergency  department,  a  city  marshal,  a  school crossing guard
 appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
 pal law, a traffic enforcement officer,  traffic  enforcement  agent  or
 employee  of any entity governed by the public service law in the course
 of performing an essential service, from performing a  lawful  duty,  by
 means  including releasing or failing to control an animal under circum-
 stances evincing the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the  lawful
 activity  of such peace officer, [police officer,] prosecutor as defined
 in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,
 registered nurse, licensed practical nurse,  public  health  sanitarian,
 New  York  city  public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent,
 New York city sanitation  worker,  firefighter,  paramedic,  technician,

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

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