STATE OF NEW YORK
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8221
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including corrections
officers in certain assault charges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 476
2 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, corrections offi-
4 cer, firefighter or emergency medical services professional.
5 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer,
6 corrections officer, firefighter or emergency medical services profes-
7 sional when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer,
8 corrections officer, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a
9 paramedic or emergency medical technician administering first aid in the
10 course of performance of duty as such firefighter, or an emergency
11 medical service paramedic or emergency medical service technician, from
12 performing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious physical injury to
13 such peace officer, police officer, corrections officer, firefighter,
14 paramedic or technician.
15 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, corrections officer, fire-
16 fighter or emergency medical services professional is a class C felony.
17 § 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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