STATE OF NEW YORK
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11088
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to removing the deadly weapon
or dangerous instrument requirement from aggravated assault upon a
police officer or 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 another person whom [he] such person knows or reasonably should know to
7 be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of perform-
8 ing [his] such police officer or peace officer's official duties, [he]
9 such person causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous
10 instrument].
11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
12 B felony.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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