Assembly Bill A1884A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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2023-A1884 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9387
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.05, 195.05 & 240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9257, S9267

2023-A1884 - 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.

2023-A1884 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1884
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, GUNTHER, SILLITTI -- read once and
   referred to the Committee 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
 amended  by  chapter  233  of the laws of 2022, 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,  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]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01411-01-3
              

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2023-A1884A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9387
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.05, 195.05 & 240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9257, S9267

2023-A1884A (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.

2023-A1884A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1884--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, GUNTHER, SILLITTI -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee  on
   Codes  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 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
 amended  by  chapter  233  of the laws of 2022, 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,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01411-03-4
              

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