Senate Bill S6763

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to assaults on medical providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals

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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-S6763 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L

2023-S6763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to assaults on medical providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals.

2023-S6763 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6763
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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  assaults  on  medical
   providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 11 of section 120.05 of the  penal  law,
 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 2016 and subdivi-
 sion  11  as  amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2022, are 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,  [registered  nurse, licensed practical nurse,] A PHYSI-
 CIAN, A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, A HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER,  A  PRIMARY  CARE
 PRACTITIONER  OR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A NURSE OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL
 INCLUDING A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE PRACTITIONER, CERTIFIED OR  LICENSED
 NURSE PRACTITIONER, A CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTI-
 CAL  NURSE,  AMBULANCE  PERSONNEL, A DIRECTOR OF A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL
 DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT  OR  VOLUNTEER  OF  A  HOSPITAL  AS
 DEFINED  IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, A
 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,  sani-
 tation  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefight-
 er, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or  emergency  medical
 technician  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
 
              

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