STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

ASSEMBLY, Nos. 1158 and 1159

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblymen COHEN and SULIGA)

ADOPTED: MAY 8, 1997

      These floor amendments restore the offenses in subsections b. and c. of section 2 of the bill to crimes of the third and fourth degree, respectively. Because these offenses now require serious or significant bodily injury be caused (instead of placing a person in danger of the injury), the sponsors believe the higher degrees of crime are more appropriate. Additionally, a technical correction is made in subsection c. including the word “knowingly”.

      These floor amendments make this bill identical to Senate No. 187(2R).