Bill Text: NY S07569 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to protecting public health and sanitarian enforcement workers from assault.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - referred to codes [S07569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07569-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7569--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 15, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting public health
         and sanitarian enforcement workers from assault
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 3 and 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law,
    2  as amended by chapter 259 of the laws of 2013, are amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, prosecu-
    5  tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
    6  procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, PUBLIC HEALTH
    7  SANITARIAN, NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, sanitation  enforce-
    8  ment  agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including a
    9  firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
   10  istering first aid in the course of performance of duty  as  such  fire-
   11  fighter,  an  emergency  medical  service paramedic or emergency medical
   12  service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital  emer-
   13  gency department, a city marshal, a traffic enforcement officer or traf-
   14  fic enforcement agent, from performing a lawful duty, by means including
   15  releasing  or  failing to control an animal under circumstances evincing
   16  the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful activity of  such
   17  peace  officer,  police  officer,  prosecutor  as defined in subdivision
   18  thirty-one of section 1.20 of the  criminal  procedure  law,  registered
   19  nurse, licensed practical nurse, PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, NEW YORK CITY
   20  PUBLIC  HEALTH  SANITARIAN,  sanitation enforcement agent, New York city
   21  sanitation worker, firefighter,  paramedic,  technician,  city  marshal,
   22  traffic  enforcement  officer  or  traffic  enforcement agent, he or she
   23  causes physical injury to such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor
   24  as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section  1.20  of  the  criminal
   25  procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, PUBLIC HEALTH
   26  SANITARIAN,  NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, sanitation enforce-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15261-02-4
       S. 7569--A                          2
    1  ment agent, New York city  sanitation  worker,  firefighter,  paramedic,
    2  technician  or  medical  or  related  personnel  in a hospital emergency
    3  department,  city  marshal,  traffic  enforcement  officer  or   traffic
    4  enforcement agent; or
    5    11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
    6  inspector,  conductor,  signalperson,  bus  operator  or  station  agent
    7  employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private,
    8  whose  operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political
    9  subdivisions, a city marshal, a  traffic  enforcement  officer,  traffic
   10  enforcement  agent,  prosecutor  as defined in subdivision thirty-one of
   11  section 1.20 of  the  criminal  procedure  law,  sanitation  enforcement
   12  agent,  New  York  city sanitation worker, PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, NEW
   13  YORK CITY PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, registered nurse or licensed practi-
   14  cal nurse he or she causes physical injury to such train operator, tick-
   15  et inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator  or  station  agent,
   16  city  marshal,  traffic  enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent,
   17  prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20  of  the
   18  criminal  procedure  law,  registered  nurse,  licensed practical nurse,
   19  PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN,  sani-
   20  tation  enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker, while such
   21  employee is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to,  the
   22  operation  of  a train or bus, or such city marshal, traffic enforcement
   23  officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision
   24  thirty-one of section 1.20 of the  criminal  procedure  law,  registered
   25  nurse, licensed practical nurse, PUBLIC HEALTH SANITARIAN, NEW YORK CITY
   26  PUBLIC  HEALTH SANITARIAN, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city
   27  sanitation worker, is performing an assigned duty.
   28    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   29  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.