Bill Text: NY S06860 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the harassment of certain employees of a transit agency or authority whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06860 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06860-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6860

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to harassing certain  employ-
          ees 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. 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 a train operator, ticket inspector,  conductor,  signal-
     6  person,  bus  operator  or station agent employed by any transit agency,
     7  authority or company, public or private, whose operation  is  authorized
     8  by New York state or any of its political subdivisions; or
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07864-01-1
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