Bill Text: NY S09468 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to assaults upon certain employees of a transit agency or authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10491 [S09468 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09468-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9468 IN SENATE May 31, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 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 sepa- 2 rately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, is amended 3 to read as 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 [or], terminal cleaner, station customer assistant; person whose 7 official duties include the sale or collection of tickets, passes, 8 vouchers, or other revenue payment media for use on a train or bus or 9 the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person whose offi- 10 cial duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshoot- 11 ing, testing or cleaning of buses, a transit signal system, elevated or 12 underground subway tracks, transit station structure, including fare 13 equipment, escalators, elevators and other equipment necessary to 14 passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train yard, revenue 15 train in passenger service, or a train or bus station or terminal; or a 16 supervisor of such personnel, employed by any transit or commuter rail 17 agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation is 18 authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions, a 19 city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two 20 hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a traffic enforcement 21 officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision 22 thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, sanitation 23 enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, public health sani- 24 tarian, New York city public health sanitarian, registered nurse, 25 licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or emer- 26 gency medical service technician, he or she causes physical injury to 27 such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus 28 operator, station agent, station cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, station EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15956-02-2S. 9468 2 1 customer assistant; person whose official duties include the sale or 2 collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or other revenue payment media 3 for use on a train or bus or the collection or handling of revenues 4 therefrom; a person whose official duties include the maintenance, 5 repair, inspection, troubleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses, a 6 transit signal system, elevated or underground subway tracks, transit 7 station structure, including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and 8 other equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or 9 stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service, or a train or 10 bus station or terminal; or a supervisor of such personnel, city 11 marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred 12 eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf- 13 fic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one 14 of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, registered nurse, 15 licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public 16 health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanita- 17 tion worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical 18 service technician, while such employee is performing an assigned duty 19 on, or directly related to, the operation of a train or bus, [including20the] cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, assisting custom- 21 ers, the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers, or other 22 revenue media for use on a train or bus, or maintenance or cleaning of a 23 train, a bus, or bus station or terminal, signal system, elevated or 24 underground subway tracks, transit station structure, including fare 25 equipment, escalators, elevators and other equipment necessary to 26 passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations, train yard or 27 revenue train in passenger service, or such city marshal, school cross- 28 ing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, 29 prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the 30 criminal procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, 31 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sani- 32 tation enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, emergency 33 medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician is 34 performing an assigned duty; or 35 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 36 have become a law.