New York Assembly Bill A03403 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3403 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the felony offense of aggravated assault The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Ildefonso Romero's law". 3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.00-a to read 4 as follows: 5 § 120.00-a Aggravated assault. 6 A person is guilty of aggravated assault when: 7 1. With intent to cause physical injury to another person, such person 8 causes serious physical injury or death to such other person or to a 9 third person; or 10 2. Such person recklessly causes serious physical injury or death to 11 another person; or 12 3. With criminal negligence, such person causes serious physical inju- 13 ry or death to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous 14 instrument. 15 Aggravated assault is a class E felony. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 17 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. LBD03024-01-5