Establishes the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility, for the intentional causation of physical injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certified by the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7039
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 class C
felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental
disability facility
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 120.05-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 120.05-a Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental
4 disability facility.
5 A person is guilty of assault of a patient in a mental health or
6 developmental disability facility when with intent to cause physical
7 injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certi-
8 fied by the office of mental health or the office for people with devel-
9 opmental disabilities, such person causes such injury to such person.
10 Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability
11 facility is a class C felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 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.
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