Bill Text: NY A03274 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer by removing the requirement that such injury be caused by a dangerous or deadly instrument.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - referred to codes [A03274 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A03274-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3274 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SMITH, DeSTEFANO, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO, ANGELINO, TANNOUSIS, HAWLEY, BRABENEC, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a 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 person whom [he] such person knows or reasonably should know to be a 7 police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing 8 [his] their official duties, [he] such person causes such injury [by9means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument]. 10 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class 11 B felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01480-01-5
