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Assembly Bill A3274

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer

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2025-A3274 (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: A10488
2017-2018: A3657, A10892
2019-2020: A6402
2021-2022: A4724
2023-2024: A5472

2025-A3274 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer by removing the requirement that such injury be caused by a dangerous or deadly instrument.

2025-A3274 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3274
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SMITH, DeSTEFANO, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO,
   ANGELINO, TANNOUSIS, HAWLEY, BRABENEC,  PALMESANO  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated
   assault upon a police officer or a peace 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 chapter 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 intent to cause serious physical injury to a
 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] THEIR official duties, [he] SUCH PERSON  causes  such  injury  [by
 means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument].
   Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
 B 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.
                                                            LBD01480-01-5

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