New York S 6045: Adds assaults against certain employees of state and local government agencies as an assault in the second degree

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S06045 Summary:

BILL NOS06045 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03282

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SPONSORBASKIN

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COSPNSRASHBY, GALLIVAN, SCARCELLA-SPANTON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §120.05, Pen L

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Establishes a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when such person intends to cause physical injury to an employee of New York state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a public benefit corporation while such employee is performing such employee's duties.

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BILL NOS06045 

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6045

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BASKIN -- 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 assaults against certain
 employees of state and local government agencies

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
 2 by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivision 15
 3 is added to read as follows:
 4 14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
 5 section eighty-nine-t of the general business law, from performing a
 6 lawful duty pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and
 7 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such a process server
 8 for the performance of the process server's duties pursuant to such
 9 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
 10 evincing the actor's intent that the animal prevent or obstruct the
 11 lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process
 12 server, [he or she] such person causes physical injury to such process
 13 server[.]; or
 14 15. With intent to cause physical injury to an employee of New York
 15 state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a
 16 public benefit corporation, such person causes physical injury to such
 17 employee while such employee is performing such employee's duties.
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00219-01-5

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