New York S 7010: Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression and includes offenses regarding gender identity or expression under the hate crimes statute

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S07010 Summary:

BILL NOS07010 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09394

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SPONSORGRIFFO

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §120.05, Pen L

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Adds employees of the office of children and family services to the list of public employees for which prevention of duties constitutes assault in the second degree.

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BILL NOS07010 

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03/28/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7010

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- 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 including employees of the
 office of children and family services on the list of public employees
 for which prevention of duties qualifies as assault in the second
 degree

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law,
 2 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 2016 and subdivi-
 3 sion 11 as amended by section 2 of part Z of chapter 55 of the laws of
 4 2024, are amended to read as follows:
 5 3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, prosecu-
 6 tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
 7 procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health
 8 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforce-
 9 ment agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including a
 10 firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
 11 istering first aid in the course of performance of duty as such fire-
 12 fighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical
 13 service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital emer-
 14 gency department, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed
 15 pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a
 16 traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent or employee of
 17 any entity governed by the public service law in the course of perform-
 18 ing an essential service, or employee of a secure or limited secure
 19 residential facility licensed, certified or operated by the office of
 20 children and family services, from performing a lawful duty, by means
 21 including releasing or failing to control an animal under circumstances
 22 evincing the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful activity
 23 of such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08579-01-5

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 1 sion thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, regis-
 2 tered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New
 3 York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New
 4 York city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic, technician, city
 5 marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
 6 eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf-
 7 fic enforcement agent or employee of an entity governed by the public
 8 service law, [he or she] or employee of a secure or limited secure resi-
 9 dential facility licensed, certified or operated by the office of chil-
 10 dren and family services, such person causes physical injury to such
 11 peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivision
 12 thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, registered
 13 nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city
 14 public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York city
 15 sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic, technician or medical or
 16 related personnel in a hospital emergency department, city marshal,
 17 school crossing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement
 18 agent or employee of an entity governed by the public se