S 7039: Establishes the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility, for the intentional causation of physical injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certified by the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7039 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 31, 2025 ___________ 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 establishing the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.05-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 120.05-a Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental 4 disability facility. 5 A person is guilty of assault of a patient in a mental health or 6 developmental disability facility when with intent to cause physical 7 injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certi- 8 fied by the office of mental health or the office for people with devel- 9 opmental disabilities, such person causes such injury to such person. 10 Assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability 11 facility is a class C felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 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. LBD11321-01-5