S 535: Removes the deadly weapon or dangerous instrument requirement from aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 535 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARTINS, RHOADS -- 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 removing the deadly weapon or dangerous instrument requirement from aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 120.11 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 283 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 120.11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer. 4 A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a 5 peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to [a] 6 another person whom [he] such person knows or reasonably should know to 7 be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of perform- 8 ing [his] such police officer or peace officer's official duties, [he] 9 such person causes such injury [by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous 10 instrument]. 11 Aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer is a class 12 B felony. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01760-01-5