S 4006: Provides that conviction of assault on a social services worker which prevents them from performing a lawful duty is a felony.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4006 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 services worker a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 120.08 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 476 2 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 120.08 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], 4 emergency medical services professional or social services 5 worker. 6 A person is guilty of assault on a peace officer, police officer, 7 firefighter [or], emergency medical services professional or social 8 services worker when, with intent to prevent a peace officer, police 9 officer, a firefighter, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or 10 emergency medical technician administering first aid in the course of 11 performance of duty as such firefighter, [or] an emergency medical 12 service paramedic or emergency medical service technician[,] or social 13 services worker from performing a lawful duty, [he or she] such person 14 causes serious physical injury to such peace officer, police officer, 15 firefighter, paramedic [or], technician or social services worker. 16 Assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter [or], emergen- 17 cy medical services professional or social services worker is a class C 18 felony. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07147-01-5