Senate Bill S6427

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes exposing a first responder or correction officer to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree

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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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2023-S6427 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4085
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.10, Pen L

2023-S6427 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes exposing a first responder or correction officer to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree.

2023-S6427 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6427 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6427
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GALLIVAN -- 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 including exposing a first
   responder  or  correction officer to fentanyl, fentanyl derivatives or
   opiates containing fentanyl or fentanyl derivatives in the  definition
   of the offense of assault in the first degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 120.10 of the penal law, subdivision 4  as  amended
 by  chapter 791 of the laws of 1967 and the closing paragraph as amended
 by chapter 646 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.10 Assault in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
   1. With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person,  he
 OR  SHE  causes such injury to such person or to a third person by means
 of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
   2. With intent to disfigure another person seriously and  permanently,
 or  to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of his
 OR HER body, he OR SHE causes such injury to such person or to  a  third
 person; or
   3. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life,
 he  OR  SHE  recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of
 death to another person, and thereby causes serious physical  injury  to
 another person; or
   4.  In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he OR  SHE,  or
 another participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a
 person other than one of the participants; OR
   5.  WITH  INTENT TO CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO A FIRST RESPONDER
 AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, OR  A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08606-03-3
              

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