Bill offers assault protection for EMS and fire personnel

By JOHN HULTGREN
Kentucky EMS Connection

FRANKFORT — A bill that would amend the assault in the third degree law to include paid or volunteer fire and emergency medical service personnel was introduced into the Kentucky Senate yesterday by Senator R. Jones II.

The full text of the bill appears below.

AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree.

Section 1. KRS 508.025 is amended to read as follows:

(1) A person is guilty of assault in the third degree when the actor:

(a) Recklessly, with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or intentionally causes or attempts to cause physical injury to:

1. A state, county, city, or federal peace officer;

2. An employee of a detention facility, or state residential treatment facility or state staff secure facility for residential treatment which provides for the care, treatment, or detention of a juvenile charged with or adjudicated delinquent because of a public offense or as a youthful offender;

3. An employee of the Department for Community Based Services employed as a social worker to provide direct client services, if the event occurs while the worker is performing job related duties;[ or]

4. A paid or volunteer person providing emergency medical services with an ambulance service, fire department, or rescue squad, or as a first responder, if the event occurs while the worker is performing job related duties;

5. A paid or volunteer firefighter, if the event occurs while the firefighter is performing job-related duties; or

6. A probation and parole officer; or

(b) Being a person confined in a detention facility, or state residential treatment facility or state staff secure facility for residential treatment which provides for the care, treatment, or detention of a juvenile charged with or adjudicated delinquent because of a public offense or as a youthful offender, inflicts physical injury upon or throws or causes feces, or urine, or other bodily fluid to be thrown upon an employee of the facility.

(2) Assault in the third degree is a Class D felony.

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