GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 494

Short Title:  Assault Law Officer With Gun.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Clary; Capps, Carpenter, Culp, Cummings, Davis, Eddins, Ives, Kiser, McComas, McMahan, K. Miller, Mitchell, Owens, Pate, Pulley, Rayfield, Reynolds, Sexton, Sherrill, Snowden, Tolson, Weatherly, and G. Wilson.

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Referred to:  Judiciary II.

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March 16, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR ASSAULT UPON A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WITH A FIREARM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 14-34.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-34.2.  Assault with a firearm or other deadly weapon upon governmental officers or employees, company police officers, or campus police officers.
Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any person who commits an assault with a firearm or any other deadly weapon upon an officer or employee of the State or of any political subdivision of the State, a company police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 74E of the General Statutes, or a campus police officer certified pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17C or Chapter 116 of the General Statutes, in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a Class F felony."
Sec. 2.  Article 8 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-34.5.  Assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer.
Any person who commits an assault with a firearm upon a law enforcement officer in the performance of his or her duties is guilty of a Class E felony."
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1995, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.