STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9212 IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting MTA workers from harassment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 240.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3-a to read as follows: 3 3-a. Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise subjects another person to 4 physical contact, which includes spitting on such other person, and such 5 other person is an on-duty train operator; ticket inspector; conductor; 6 signalperson; bus operator; station agent; station cleaner; terminal 7 cleaner; station customer assistant; person whose official duties 8 include the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or other 9 fare payment media for use on a train or bus; person whose official 10 duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshooting, 11 testing or cleaning of a transit signal system, elevated or underground 12 subway tracks, transit station structure, train yard, revenue train in 13 passenger service, or train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor 14 of such personnel, employed by any transit agency, authority or company, 15 public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or 16 any of its political subdivisions; or 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09765-01-3