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                                  4171--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 assaults upon passenger
   commuter ferry operators or crew

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
 rately  amended  by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, is amended
 to read as follows:
   11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train  operator,  ticket
 inspector,  conductor, signalperson, bus operator, OPERATOR OR CREW OF A
 PASSENGER COMMUTER FERRY AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION (N) OF SECTION  THREE
 HUNDRED  OF  THE  TAX  LAW,  station  agent, station cleaner or terminal
 cleaner employed by any transit agency, authority or company, public  or
 private,  whose  operation is authorized by New York state or any of its
 political  subdivisions,  a  city  marshal,  a  school  crossing   guard
 appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
 pal  law,  a  traffic  enforcement  officer,  traffic enforcement agent,
 prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20  of  the
 criminal  procedure  law,  sanitation  enforcement  agent, New York city
 sanitation worker, public health sanitarian, New York city public health
 sanitarian,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,   emergency
 medical  service  paramedic, or emergency medical service technician, he
 or she causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket  inspector,
 conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station cleaner or
 terminal cleaner, city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant
 to  section  two  hundred  eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic
 enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in
 subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the  criminal  procedure  law,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD09713-02-9

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 registered  nurse,  licensed  practical nurse, public health sanitarian,
 New York city public health sanitarian,  sanitation  enforcement  agent,
 New York city sanitation worker, emergency medical service paramedic, or
 emergency  medical service technician, while such employee is performing
 an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation of a train or
 bus, including the cleaning of a train or bus station  or  terminal,  or
 such  city  marshal, school crossing guard, traffic enforcement officer,
 traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision  thirty-
 one  of  section  1.20  of the criminal procedure law, registered nurse,
 licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New York city public
 health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New York  city  sanita-
 tion  worker,  emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical
 service technician is performing an assigned duty; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.