New York S 6662: Relates to assaults on medical providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals

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S06662 Summary:

BILL NOS06662 

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Amd §120.05, Pen L

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Relates to assaults on medical providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals.

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BILL NOS06662 

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03/19/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6662

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 19, 2025
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 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 assaults on medical
 providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals

 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,] a physi-
 8 cian, a physician assistant, a health care provider, a primary care
 9 practitioner or primary care physician, a nurse or nursing professional
 10 including a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, certified or licensed
 11 nurse practitioner, a certified nursing assistant, or a licensed practi-
 12 cal nurse, ambulance personnel, a director of a hospital or a medical
 13 director, employee, attendant, agent or volunteer of a hospital as
 14 defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law, a
 15 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani-
 16 tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefight-
 17 er, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical
 18 technician administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
 19 as such firefighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency
 20 medical service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospi-
 21 tal emergency department, a city marshal, a school crossing guard
 22 appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
 23 pal law, a traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent or
 24 employee of any entity governed by the public service law in the course
 25 of performing an essential service, from performing a lawful duty, by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09917-01-5

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 1 means including releasing or failing to control an animal under circum-
 2 stances evincing the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful
 3 activity of such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in
 4 subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,
 5 [registered nurse, licensed practical nurse,] physician, physician
 6 assistant, health care provider, primary care practitioner or primary
 7 care physician, a nurse or nursing professional including a registered
 8 nurse, nurse practitioner, certified or licensed nurse practitioner, a
 9 certified nursing assistant, or a licensed practical nurse, ambulance
 10 personnel, a director of a hospital or a medical director, employee,
 11 attendant, agent or volunteer of a hospital as defined in section twen-
 12 ty-eight hundred one of the public health law, a public health sanitari-
 13 an, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement
 14 agent, New York city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic, techni-
 15 cian, city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section
 16 two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement
 17 officer, traffic enforcement agent or employee of an entity governed by
 18 the public service law, [he or she causes] they cause physical injury to
 19 such peace offi