S 3118: Expands 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3118 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 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: 1 Section 1. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3-d to read as follows: 3 3-d. (a) With intent to prevent an employee of domestic violence shel- 4 ters from performing their lawful duties while located on the grounds, 5 real property, or a building owned, managed, or operated by such domes- 6 tic violence shelters or within five hundred feet of such shelters, such 7 person causes physical injury to such employee; and 8 (b) with intent to prevent persons seeking services from such domestic 9 violence shelters and/or residing in such shelters from accessing the 10 grounds, real property, or a building owned, managed, or operated by 11 such domestic violence shelters or within five hundred feet of such 12 shelters, they cause physical injury to such person; or 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 14 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. LBD07201-01-5