Assembly Bill A6391

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to assault on caseworkers

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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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2017-A6391 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9839
2013-2014: A4065
2015-2016: A6729

2017-A6391 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to assault on caseworkers.

2017-A6391 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6391
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on caseworkers
 
   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 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  tech-
 nician,  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, while such
 employee is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to,  the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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