STATE OF NEW YORK
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2509
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 making conviction of
assault of a social services worker a felony
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 added by chapter 632 of
2 the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emer-
4 gency medical services professional or social services
5 worker.
6 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer,
7 fireman [or], emergency medical services professional or social services
8 worker when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a
9 fireman, including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency medical
10 technician administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
11 as such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic or emergen-
12 cy medical service technician[,] or social services worker from perform-
13 ing a lawful duty, he or she causes serious physical injury to such
14 peace officer, police officer, fireman, paramedic [or], technician or
15 social services worker.
16 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emergency
17 medical services professional or social services worker is a class C
18 felony.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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