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Senate Bill S7355
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) 24th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2025-S7355 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S7355 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7355
SPONSOR: LANZA
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:
2025-S7355 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7355
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 10, 2025
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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 amended by chapter 476
of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
§ 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or],
emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER.
A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer,
firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional OR SOCIAL
WORKER when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police officer, a
firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency
medical technician administering first aid in the course of performance
of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical service paramedic
or emergency medical service technician[,] OR SOCIAL WORKER from
performing a lawful duty, [he or she] SUCH PERSON causes serious phys-
ical injury to such peace officer, police officer, firefighter, paramed-
ic [or], technician OR SOCIAL WORKER.
Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen-
cy medical services professional OR SOCIAL WORKER is a class C felony.
§ 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.
LBD09657-01-5
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