Enacts "Ildefonso Romero's law" to establish the felony offense of aggravated assault for the causation of serious physical injury to or death of, as the case may be, any person, with intent to cause physical injury to such person or a third person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1241
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 establishing the felony
offense of aggravated assault
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Ildefonso Romero's law".
3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.00-a to read
4 as follows:
5 § 120.00-a Aggravated assault.
6 A person is guilty of aggravated assault when:
7 1. With intent to cause physical injury to another person, such person
8 causes serious physical injury or death to such other person or to a
9 third person; or
10 2. Such person recklessly causes serious physical injury or death to
11 another person; or
12 3. With criminal negligence, such person causes serious physical inju-
13 ry or death to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous
14 instrument.
15 Aggravated assault is a class E felony.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
17 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.
LBD03024-01-5
