Senate Bill S7866

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to assaults on supervisory personnel of a transit system

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Archive: Last 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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2015-S7866 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1760
2019-2020: S6013
2021-2022: S3880

2015-S7866 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to assaults on supervisory personnel of a transit system performing assigned duties; elevates such assault to second degree.

2015-S7866 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7866 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7866

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 18, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  assault  in  the  second
  degree upon a supervisory member of a transit system

  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  487  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
follows:
  11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train  operator,  ticket
inspector,  conductor, signalperson, bus operator [or], station agent OR
SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL 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, 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 [or], station agent,
SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL, city marshal,  school  crossing  guard  appointed
pursuant  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 proce-
dure   law,  registered  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,  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
operation  of  a  train  or  bus,  or such city marshal, school crossing
guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent,  prosecu-
tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal
procedure  law,  registered  nurse, licensed practical nurse, sanitation

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

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