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