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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sens. OBERACKER, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, RHOADS -- 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  protecting  registered
   security guards in a hospital or health care facility from assault

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 11 of section 120.05 of the  penal  law,
 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 2016 and subdivi-
 sion  11  as amended by section 2 of part Z of chapter 55 of the laws of
 2024, are amended to read as follows:
   3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer,  prosecu-
 tor 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 enforce-
 ment agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including  a
 firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin-
 istering  first  aid  in the course of performance of duty as such fire-
 fighter, an emergency medical service  paramedic  or  emergency  medical
 service  technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital emer-
 gency department, A REGISTERED SECURITY GUARD IN A  HOSPITAL  OR  HEALTH
 CARE  FACILITY, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed pursu-
 ant to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a traf-
 fic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent or  employee  of  any
 entity governed by the public service law in the course of performing an
 essential  service,  from  performing  a lawful duty, by means including
 releasing or failing to control an animal under  circumstances  evincing
 the  actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful activity of such
 peace officer, police officer,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03520-01-5
              

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 public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent,  New  York  city
 sanitation  worker,  firefighter,  paramedic,  technician, city marshal,
 school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred  eight-a
 of  the  general  municipal  law,  traffic  enforcement officer, traffic
 enforcement agent or employee  of  an  entity  governed  by  the  public
 service  law,  [he  or  she]  SUCH PERSON causes physical injury to such
 peace officer, police officer,  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
 sanitation  worker,  firefighter,  paramedic,  technician  or medical or
 related personnel in a hospital emergency department, A REGISTERED SECU-
 RITY GUARD IN A HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE FACILITY, city  marshal,  school
 crossing  guard,  traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent
 or employee of an entity governed by the public service law; or
   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, traffic checker;
 person whose official duties include the sale or collection of  tickets,
 passes,  vouchers,  or  other  revenue payment media for use on a train,
 bus, or ferry the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person
 whose official duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, trou-
 bleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses or ferries, a  transit  signal
 system,  elevated  or  underground subway tracks, transit station struc-
 ture, including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and  other  equip-
 ment  necessary  to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations,
 train yard, revenue train in passenger service, a ferry  station,  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 sanitarian, New York city public health
 sanitarian,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,   emergency
 medical  service  paramedic,  [or] emergency medical service technician,
 [he or she] OR A REGISTERED SECURITY GUARD   IN A   HOSPITAL  OR  HEALTH
 CARE  FACILITY,  SUCH PERSON causes physical injury to such train opera-
 tor, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson,  bus  operator,  station
 agent,  station  cleaner,  terminal cleaner, station customer assistant,
 traffic checker; person  whose  official  duties  include  the  sale  or
 collection  of  tickets, passes, vouchers or other revenue payment media
 for use on a train, bus, or ferry  or  the  collection  or  handling  of
 revenues  therefrom;  a person whose official duties include the mainte-
 nance, repair, inspection, troubleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses
 or ferries, 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,
 a ferry station, or a train or bus station or terminal; or a  supervisor
 of  such personnel, city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursu-
 ant 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,
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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,  OR A REGISTERED SECURITY
 GUARD  IN A  HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE FACILITY, while  such  employee  is
 performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to, the operation of
 a  train or bus, cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, assist-
 ing customers, checking traffic, the  sale  or  collection  of  tickets,
 passes,  vouchers,  or  other  revenue media for use on a train, bus, or
 ferry or maintenance or cleaning of a train, a  bus,  a  ferry,  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, a ferry station, 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 proce-
 dure law, registered nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,  public  health
 sanitarian,  New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforce-
 ment 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.