Bill Text: NY A06944 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes traffic checkers in the existing 2nd degree assault provisions found in the penal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06944 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06944-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6944 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaults upon certain employees of a transit agency or authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket 5 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station 6 cleaner, terminal cleaner, traffic checker, station customer assistant; 7 person whose official duties include the sale or collection of tickets, 8 passes, vouchers, or other revenue payment media for use on a train or 9 bus or the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person whose 10 official duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, trouble- 11 shooting, testing or cleaning of buses, a transit signal system, 12 elevated or underground subway tracks, transit station structure, 13 including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and other equipment 14 necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train 15 yard, revenue train in passenger service, or a train or bus station or 16 terminal; or a supervisor of such personnel, employed by any transit or 17 commuter rail agency, authority or company, public or private, whose 18 operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdi- 19 visions, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to 20 section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a traffic 21 enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in 22 subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, 23 sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, public 24 health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, registered 25 nurse, licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11098-01-3A. 6944 2 1 emergency medical service technician, he or she causes physical injury 2 to such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus 3 operator, station agent, station cleaner, terminal cleaner, traffic 4 checker, station customer assistant; person whose official duties 5 include the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or other 6 revenue payment media for use on a train or bus or the collection or 7 handling of revenues therefrom; a person whose official duties include 8 the maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshooting, testing or clean- 9 ing of buses, a transit signal system, elevated or underground subway 10 tracks, transit station structure, including fare equipment, escalators, 11 elevators and other equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter 12 rail tracks or stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service, 13 or a train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor of such person- 14 nel, city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section 15 two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement 16 officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision 17 thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, registered 18 nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city 19 public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York city 20 sanitation worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency 21 medical service technician, while such employee is performing an 22 assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation of a train or 23 bus, cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, assisting custom- 24 ers, the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers, or other 25 revenue media for use on a train or bus, or maintenance or cleaning of a 26 train, a bus, or bus station or terminal, signal system, elevated or 27 underground subway tracks, transit station structure, including fare 28 equipment, escalators, elevators and other equipment necessary to 29 passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train yard or 30 revenue train in passenger service, or such city marshal, school cross- 31 ing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, 32 prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the 33 criminal procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, 34 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani- 35 tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency 36 medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician is 37 performing an assigned duty; or 38 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 39 have become a law.
