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Senate Bill S1603

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the class C felony offense of assault on a school employee

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2025-S1603 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §120.00-a, amd §120.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S5343
2019-2020: S418
2021-2022: S4488
2023-2024: S2827

2025-S1603 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the class C felony offense of assault on a school employee for the intentional causing of physical injury to a school employee while upon school grounds.

2025-S1603 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1603 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1603
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 the offense of assault  on
   a school employee
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  120.00-a
 to read as follows:
 § 120.00-A ASSAULT ON A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE.
   A  PERSON  IS GUILTY OF ASSAULT ON A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE WHEN, ACTING AT A
 PLACE THE PERSON KNOWS, OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW, IS ON SCHOOL  GROUNDS
 AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION 220.00 OF THIS PART, AND
 WITH INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY TO  AN  EMPLOYEE  OF  A  SCHOOL  OR
 PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, SUCH PERSON CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH EMPLOYEE.
   ASSAULT ON A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE IS A CLASS C FELONY.
   §  2. Subdivision 10 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as amended by
 chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   10. Acting at a place the person knows, or reasonably should know,  is
 on school grounds and with intent to cause physical injury, [he or she:
   (a)  causes  such  injury  to an employee of a school or public school
 district; or
   (b)] SUCH PERSON, not being a student of such school or public  school
 district,  causes physical injury to another, and such other person is a
 student of such school who  is  attending  or  present  for  educational
 purposes.  For  purposes  of  this subdivision the term "school grounds"
 shall have the meaning set forth  in  subdivision  fourteen  of  section
 220.00 of this [chapter] PART; or
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02472-01-5

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