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                                   9468
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 31, 2022
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 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:

   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, station agent, station
 cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, STATION CUSTOMER ASSISTANT; PERSON WHOSE
 OFFICIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE  SALE  OR  COLLECTION  OF  TICKETS,  PASSES,
 VOUCHERS,  OR  OTHER REVENUE PAYMENT MEDIA FOR USE ON A  TRAIN OR BUS OR
 THE COLLECTION OR HANDLING OF REVENUES THEREFROM; A PERSON  WHOSE  OFFI-
 CIAL  DUTIES  INCLUDE THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, INSPECTION, TROUBLESHOOT-
 ING, TESTING OR CLEANING OF BUSES, A TRANSIT SIGNAL SYSTEM, ELEVATED  OR
 UNDERGROUND  SUBWAY  TRACKS,  TRANSIT  STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE
 EQUIPMENT,  ESCALATORS,  ELEVATORS  AND  OTHER  EQUIPMENT  NECESSARY  TO
 PASSENGER SERVICE, COMMUTER RAIL TRACKS OR STATIONS, TRAIN YARD, REVENUE
 TRAIN  IN PASSENGER SERVICE, OR A TRAIN OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL; OR A
 SUPERVISOR OF SUCH PERSONNEL, employed by any transit OR  COMMUTER  RAIL
 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 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  sani-
 tarian,  New  York  city  public  health  sanitarian,  registered nurse,
 licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or  emer-
 gency  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, STATION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 CUSTOMER  ASSISTANT;  PERSON  WHOSE  OFFICIAL DUTIES INCLUDE THE SALE OR
 COLLECTION OF TICKETS, PASSES, VOUCHERS OR OTHER REVENUE  PAYMENT  MEDIA
 FOR  USE  ON  A   TRAIN OR BUS OR THE COLLECTION OR HANDLING OF REVENUES
 THEREFROM;  A  PERSON  WHOSE  OFFICIAL  DUTIES  INCLUDE THE MAINTENANCE,
 REPAIR, INSPECTION, TROUBLESHOOTING, TESTING OR  CLEANING  OF  BUSES,  A
 TRANSIT  SIGNAL  SYSTEM,  ELEVATED OR UNDERGROUND SUBWAY TRACKS, TRANSIT
 STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE EQUIPMENT, ESCALATORS,  ELEVATORS  AND
 OTHER  EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO PASSENGER SERVICE, COMMUTER RAIL TRACKS OR
 STATIONS, TRAIN YARD, REVENUE TRAIN IN PASSENGER SERVICE, OR A TRAIN  OR
 BUS  STATION  OR  TERMINAL;  OR  A  SUPERVISOR  OF  SUCH PERSONNEL, city
 marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
 eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf-
 fic 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, 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,  ASSISTING  CUSTOM-
 ERS,  THE  SALE  OR  COLLECTION  OF  TICKETS, PASSES, VOUCHERS, OR OTHER
 REVENUE MEDIA FOR USE ON A TRAIN OR BUS, OR MAINTENANCE OR CLEANING OF A
 TRAIN, A BUS, OR BUS STATION OR TERMINAL,  SIGNAL  SYSTEM,  ELEVATED  OR
 UNDERGROUND  SUBWAY  TRACKS,  TRANSIT  STATION STRUCTURE, INCLUDING FARE
 EQUIPMENT,  ESCALATORS,  ELEVATORS  AND  OTHER  EQUIPMENT  NECESSARY  TO
 PASSENGER  SERVICE,  COMMUTER  RAIL  TRACKS  OR  STATIONS, TRAIN YARD OR
 REVENUE TRAIN IN PASSENGER SERVICE, or such city marshal, school  cross-
 ing  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,  sani-
 tation  enforcement  agent,  New  York city sanitation worker, emergency
 medical service paramedic, or emergency medical  service  technician  is
 performing an assigned duty; or
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.