Assembly Bill A5892

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the assault of physicians providing direct patient care

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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-A5892 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10225
2019-2020: A2460
2023-2024: A748

2021-A5892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the assault of physicians providing direct patient care; provides that assault of physicians shall be assault in the second degree, a class D felony.

2021-A5892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5892
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, COOK, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the assault of physicians
   providing direct patient care
 
   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, prosecu-
 tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law, A PHYSICIAN AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED  THIRTY-ONE
 OF THE EDUCATION 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,  A
 PHYSICIAN  AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THE EDUCATION
 LAW, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitari-
 an, New York  city  public  health  sanitarian,  sanitation  enforcement
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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