Senate Bill S1456

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Changes the age of the victim of aggravated assault, penal law 120.12, from less than eleven to less than fourteen

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S1456 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.12, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3804
2011-2012: S4391
2015-2016: S2082

2013-S1456 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the age of the intended victim of aggravated assault, penal law 120.12, from less than eleven to less than fourteen years.

2013-S1456 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1456 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1456

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. FLANAGAN, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to changing the  age  of  the
  victim intended for a specific crime of assault

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 120.12 of the penal law, as added by chapter 477 of
the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
S 120.12 Aggravated assault upon a person less  than  [eleven]  FOURTEEN
           years old.
  A  person  is  guilty  of  aggravated  assault upon a person less than
[eleven] FOURTEEN years old when being eighteen years old  or  more  the
defendant commits the crime of assault in the third degree as defined in
section 120.00 of this article upon a person less than [eleven] FOURTEEN
years  old  and  has  been  previously  convicted of [such crime] EITHER
ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 120.00 OF  THIS  ARTI-
CLE,  ASSAULT  IN THE SECOND DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 120.05 OF THIS
ARTICLE, OR ASSAULT IN THE FIRST DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 120.10  OF
THIS  ARTICLE AND SUCH PRIOR CRIME WAS COMMITTED upon a person less than
[eleven] FOURTEEN years old within the preceding [three] TEN years.
  Aggravated assault upon a person less than [eleven] FOURTEEN years old
is a class E felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05627-01-3


              

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