STATE OF NEW YORK
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4578
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2021
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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 making conviction of
assault of a social worker a felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 476
2 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or],
4 emergency medical services professional or social worker.
5 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer,
6 firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional or social
7 worker when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a
8 firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency
9 medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance
10 of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic
11 or emergency medical service technician[,] or social worker from
12 performing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious physical injury to
13 such peace officer, police officer, firefighter, paramedic [or], techni-
14 cian or social worker.
15 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen-
16 cy medical services professional or social worker is a class C felony.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 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.
LBD06327-01-1
