S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3305
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 28, 2021
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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.
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