Senate Bill S6618

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to assaults upon certain employees of a transit agency or authority

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee


  • 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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2023-S6618 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6944
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L

2023-S6618 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes traffic checkers in the existing 2nd degree assault provisions found in the penal law.

2023-S6618 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6618 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6618
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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
 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, TRAFFIC CHECKER, 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
 official  duties  include  the maintenance, repair, inspection, trouble-
 shooting, 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 subdi-
 visions,  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  sanitarian,  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.
                                                            LBD11098-01-3
              

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