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Senate Bill S4625

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to adding aggravated assault in the third degree to the penal law

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2025-S4625 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §120.80, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4022
2019-2020: S4138
2021-2022: S1894
2023-2024: S5307

2025-S4625 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the addition of aggravated assault in the third degree to the penal law.

2025-S4625 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4625 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4625
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 aggravated assault in  the
   third degree
 
   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 120.80  to
 read as follows:
 § 120.80 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE WHEN SUCH
 PERSON  COMMITS  THE  CRIME OF ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION 120.00 OF THIS ARTICLE AND IS AIDED BY  ANOTHER  PERSON  WHO  IS
 PHYSICALLY PRESENT.
   AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD08599-01-5

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