Establishes a new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaulting a retired
police officer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 15 to read as follows:
3 15. With the intent to cause physical injury to a specific retired
4 police officer, as police officer is defined pursuant to subdivision
5 thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, due to a
6 belief regarding such retired police officer's involvement in a previous
7 arrest of such person while on active duty, such person causes such
8 injury to such retired police officer or a third person.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 120.10 of the penal law, as amended by
10 chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is
11 added to read as follows:
12 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
13 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, [he] such
14 person, or another participant if there be any, causes serious physical
15 injury to a person other than one of the participants[.] ; or
16 5. With intent to cause serious physical injury to a specific retired
17 police officer, as police officer is defined pursuant to subdivision
18 thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, due to a
19 belief regarding such retired police officer's involvement in a previous
20 arrest of such person while on active duty, such person causes such
21 injury to such retired police officer or to a third person.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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