S3611-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CODES
• Feb 28, 2011: REFERRED TO CODES

S3611-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3611

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:
2011:   A.4525A
2011:   A.4404

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.

S3611-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3611
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 28, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- 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 services 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   SERVICES
 WORKER.
 A  person  is  guilty  of  assault on a peace officer, police officer,
 fireman [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES
 WORKER when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police  officer,  a
 fireman,  including a fireman acting as a paramedic or emergency medical
 technician administering first aid in the course of performance of  duty
 as such fireman, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic or emergen
 cy medical service technician[,] OR SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER from perform
 ing  a  lawful  duty,  he  OR SHE causes serious physical injury to such
 peace officer, police officer, fireman, paramedic  [or],  technician  OR
 SOCIAL SERVICES WORKER.
 Assault  on  a  peace officer, police officer, fireman [or], emergency
 medical services professional OR SOCIAL SERVICES 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.
 LBD04585-02-1

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