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A11088 • 2025

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

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

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Sponsor
Eric Brown
Last action
2026-04-24
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

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

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-24 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11088

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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