Assembly Bill A4585

                             
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                                   4585
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to elevating the  assault  of
   an  elected  official  to  the class D felony of assault in the second
   degree

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  120.05  of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 267 of the laws  of  2016,  is  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, public health
 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforce-
 ment  agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including a
 firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
 istering first aid in the course of performance of duty  as  such  fire-
 fighter,  an  emergency  medical  service paramedic or emergency medical
 service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital  emer-
 gency  department,  a  city  marshal,  a school crossing guard appointed
 pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law,  a
 traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent [or], employee of
 any  entity governed by the public service law in the course of perform-
 ing an essential service, OR ELECTED OFFICIAL from performing  a  lawful
 duty, by means including releasing or failing to control an animal under
 circumstances  evincing  the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the
 lawful activity of such peace officer,  police  officer,  prosecutor  as
 defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal proce-
 dure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical nurse, public health
 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation  enforce-
 ment  agent,  New  York  city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05671-01-5
              

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 technician, city marshal, school crossing guard  appointed  pursuant  to
 section  two  hundred  eight-a  of  the  general  municipal law, traffic
 enforcement officer, traffic enforcement  agent  [or],  employee  of  an
 entity governed by the public service law, [he or she causes] OR ELECTED
 OFFICIAL, THEY CAUSE physical injury to such peace officer, police offi-
 cer,  prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of
 the criminal procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical  nurse,
 public  health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani-
 tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker,  firefighter,
 paramedic,  technician  or  medical  or  related personnel in a hospital
 emergency department,  city  marshal,  school  crossing  guard,  traffic
 enforcement  officer,  traffic  enforcement  agent  [or], employee of an
 entity governed by the public service law, OR ELECTED OFFICIAL; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.