Assembly Bill A294

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A294 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.11, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6249
2017-2018: A4122
2019-2020: A4214
2021-2022: A9219
2023-2024: A498

2025-A294 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer when, with intent to cause physical injury to another person whom such person knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing such police officer or peace officer's official duties and when aided by two or more other persons actually present at an assembly in a public place, as such term is defined in subdivision one of section 240.00 of this part, such person causes physical injury to such police officer or peace officer.

2025-A294 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    294
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated assault upon a
   police officer
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by section 283
 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
   A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police  officer  or  a
 peace officer when[, with]:
   (A) WITH intent to cause serious physical injury to [a] ANOTHER person
 whom  [he]  SUCH  PERSON  knows or reasonably should know to be a police
 officer or a peace officer engaged in the  course  of  performing  [his]
 SUCH  POLICE  OFFICER'S  OR  PEACE  OFFICER'S official duties, [he] SUCH
 PERSON causes such injury by means  of  a  deadly  weapon  or  dangerous
 instrument; OR
   (B)  WITH  INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON WHOM SUCH
 PERSON KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER OR A PEACE
 OFFICER ENGAGED IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING  SUCH  POLICE  OFFICER'S  OR
 PEACE  OFFICER'S  OFFICIAL  DUTIES  AND  WHEN AIDED BY TWO OR MORE OTHER
 PERSONS ACTUALLY PRESENT AT AN ASSEMBLY IN A PUBLIC PLACE, AS SUCH  TERM
 IS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION 240.00 OF THIS PART, SUCH
 PERSON CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER.
   Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
 B felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01218-01-5

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