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                                   8731
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding the offense of
   assault in the second degree to include  the  infliction  of  physical
   injury  to employees of domestic violence shelters and persons seeking
   shelter in such shelters

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3-d to read as follows:
   3-D. (A) WITH INTENT TO PREVENT AN EMPLOYEE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHEL-
 TERS FROM PERFORMING HIS OR HER  LAWFUL  DUTIES  WHILE  LOCATED  ON  THE
 GROUNDS,  REAL  PROPERTY,  OR  A BUILDING OWNED, MANAGED, OR OPERATED BY
 SUCH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS OR WITHIN  FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET  OF  SUCH
 SHELTERS, HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH EMPLOYEE; AND
   (B) WITH INTENT TO PREVENT PERSONS SEEKING SERVICES FROM SUCH DOMESTIC
 VIOLENCE  SHELTERS  AND/OR  RESIDING IN SUCH SHELTERS FROM ACCESSING THE
 GROUNDS, REAL PROPERTY, OR A BUILDING OWNED,  MANAGED,  OR  OPERATED  BY
 SUCH  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  SHELTERS  OR  WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF SUCH
 SHELTERS, HE OR SHE CAUSES PHYSICAL INJURY TO SUCH PERSON; OR
   § 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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