Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

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S2947-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CODES
• Feb 3, 2011: REFERRED TO CODES

S2947-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2947

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the penal law, in relation to making conviction of assault of a
social worker a felony

PURPOSE:
Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which
prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as
added by chapter 632 of the laws of the 1996, is amended to make the
conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents them from
performing their lawful duty a felony.

JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation would make assaulting a social worker a
Felony Crime a protection that is already granted to Teachers, Police
Officers, and Transit Workers.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Legislation.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Unknown.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of November next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

S2947-2011 Text

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

                                    2947

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              February 3, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  making  conviction  of
    assault of a social worker a felony

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


    Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 632 of
  the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:

  S 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emer-
             gency medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER.
    A person is guilty of assault on  a  peace  officer,  police  officer,
  fireman  [or],  emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER
  when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a fireman,
  including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency  medical  techni-
  cian  administering  first  aid  in the course of performance of duty as
  such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic  or  emergency
  medical  service technician[,] OR SOCIAL WORKER from performing a lawful
  duty, he OR SHE causes serious physical injury to  such  peace  officer,
  police officer, fireman, paramedic [or], technician OR SOCIAL WORKER.
    Assault  on  a  peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emergency
  medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER is a class C 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.
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