Assembly Bill A9257

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing penalties for assault, obstruction and harassment of an election officer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9257 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9267
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.05, 195.05 & 240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1884, S9387

2021-A9257 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to an election officer while such person is performing their assigned duties; amends aggravated harassment and obstruction of governmental administration to include election officers.

2021-A9257 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9257
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing penalties for
   assault, obstruction and harassment of election officers
 
   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
 separately 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, 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  municipal  law, a traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforce-
 ment 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,  OR  ELECTION  OFFICER  AS  DEFINED  IN SECTION 1-104 OF THE
 ELECTION LAW, 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 munici-
 pal law, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent,  prose-
 cutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the crimi-
 nal  procedure  law,  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 OR ELECTION
 OFFICER, while such employee is  performing  an  assigned  duty  on,  or
 directly  related  to,  the  operation  of a train or bus, including the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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