GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL 560

Senate Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 6/2/15

 

Short Title:        Assault Emergency Workers/Hospital Personnel.		(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

April 6, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to provide that it is a felony to assault hospital personnel and licensed healthcare providers who are PROVIDING OR ATTEMPTING TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN A HOSPITAL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑34.6 reads as rewritten:

"§ 14‑34.6.  Assault or affray on a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, medical responder, and emergency department hospital personnel.

(a)        A person is guilty of a Class I felony if the person commits an assault or affray causing physical injury on any of the following persons who are discharging or attempting to discharge their official duties:

(1)        An emergency medical technician or other emergency health care provider.

(2)        A medical responder.

(3)        The following emergency department personnel: physicians, physicians assistants, nurses, and licensed nurse practitioners.Hospital personnel and licensed healthcare providers who are providing or attempting to provide health care services to a patient in a hospital.

(4)        Repealed by Session Laws 2011‑356, s. 2, effective December 1, 2011, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date.

(5)        A firefighter.

(b)        Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class H felony if the person violates subsection (a) of this section and (i) inflicts serious bodily injury or (ii) uses a deadly weapon other than a firearm.

(c)        Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person is guilty of a Class F felony if the person violates subsection (a) of this section and uses a firearm."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2015, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.