Expands the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer by removing the requirement that such injury be caused by a dangerous or deadly instrument.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3274
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SMITH, DeSTEFANO, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO,
ANGELINO, TANNOUSIS, HAWLEY, BRABENEC, PALMESANO -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated
assault upon a police officer or a peace officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 283
2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
5 peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to a
6 person whom [he] such person knows or reasonably should know to be a
7 police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing
8 [his] their official duties, [he] such person causes such injury [by
9 means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument].
10 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
11 B felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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