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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S00535Removes the deadly weapon or dangerous instrument requirement from aggravated assault upon a police officer or peace officer.
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FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Removes the requirement that serious physical injury to a police or peace officer be caused by a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, so the offense can now be charged based on other means of causing injury.
A person is guilty of aggravated assault upon a police officer or a peace officer when, with intent to cause serious physical injury to another person whom such person knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer or a peace officer engaged in the course of performing such police officer or peace officer's official duties, such person causes such injury.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill removes the 'deadly weapon or dangerous instrument' element from the existing aggravated-assault-on-officer statute (Penal Law § 120.11), expanding the scope of the B-felony offense to include serious physical injury caused by any means. This is a general violent-crime penalty change that does not alter rules on buying, owning, carrying, or accessing firearms themselves, but the topic definition explicitly excludes only those general penalties that 'merely mention' a deadly weapon; here the bill substantively removes the weapon requirement, so the change is tagged under firearms/other
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