STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8856

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 21, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 removing the deadly weapon
          or dangerous instrument requirement from  aggravated  assault  upon  a
          police officer or peace officer

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

     1    Section 1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  283
     2  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer.
     4    A  person  is  guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a
     5  peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical  injury  to  a
     6  person whom he knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or
     7  a peace officer engaged in the course of performing his official duties,
     8  he  causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instru-
     9  ment].
    10    Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class
    11  B felony.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






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