STATE OF NEW YORK
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6853--A
IN SENATE
March 20, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the assault of certain
public agents while they are performing their duties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.08-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 120.08-a Criminally impeding an emergency medical service paramedic or
4 emergency medical service technician in the performance of
5 his or her duties while rendering patient care.
6 A person is guilty of criminally impeding an emergency medical service
7 paramedic or emergency medical service technician in the performance of
8 his or her duties while rendering patient care when with intent to
9 impede an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical
10 service technician from performing his or her duties, he or she strikes,
11 bites, kicks, punches, chokes, beats, or hits an emergency medical
12 service paramedic or emergency medical service technician while such
13 emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical service techni-
14 cian is performing a lawful or assigned duty and rendering patient care.
15 Criminally impeding an emergency medical service paramedic or emergen-
16 cy medical service technician in the performance of his or her duties
17 while rendering patient care is a class D felony.
18 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 70.02 of the penal law,
19 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
20 follows:
21 (c) Class D violent felony offenses: an attempt to commit any of the
22 class C felonies set forth in paragraph (b); reckless assault of a child
23 as defined in section 120.02, assault in the second degree as defined in
24 section 120.05, criminally impeding an emergency medical service
25 paramedic or emergency medical service technician in the performance of
26 his or her duties while rendering patient care as defined in section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 120.08-a, menacing a police officer or peace officer as defined in
2 section 120.18, stalking in the first degree, as defined in subdivision
3 one of section 120.60, strangulation in the second degree as defined in
4 section 121.12, rape in the second degree as defined in section 130.30,
5 criminal sexual act in the second degree as defined in section 130.45,
6 sexual abuse in the first degree as defined in section 130.65, course of
7 sexual conduct against a child in the second degree as defined in
8 section 130.80, aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree as defined
9 in section 130.66, facilitating a sex offense with a controlled
10 substance as defined in section 130.90, criminal possession of a weapon
11 in the third degree as defined in subdivision five, six, seven, eight,
12 nine or ten of section 265.02, criminal sale of a firearm in the third
13 degree as defined in section 265.11, intimidating a victim or witness in
14 the second degree as defined in section 215.16, soliciting or providing
15 support for an act of terrorism in the second degree as defined in
16 section 490.10, and making a terroristic threat as defined in section
17 490.20, falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as defined in
18 section 240.60, placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first
19 degree as defined in section 240.62, placing a false bomb or hazardous
20 substance in a sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility or
21 enclosed shopping mall as defined in section 240.63, and aggravated
22 unpermitted use of indoor pyrotechnics in the first degree as defined in
23 section 405.18.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
25 have become a law.
