Senate Bill S4687

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • 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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2023-S4687 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.08, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5345
2013-2014: S2704
2015-2016: S2509
2017-2018: S2259
2019-2020: S4086
2021-2022: S3305

2023-S4687 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

2023-S4687 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4687 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4687
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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.
                                                            LBD06017-01-3

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