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                                   3365
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. KIM, BRAUNSTEIN, M. MILLER, BENEDETTO, COLTON,
   BRONSON, WEPRIN, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, PICHARDO, VANEL,  BARNWELL,  OTIS,
   HYNDMAN  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK, GOTTFRIED,
   RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the assault of a driver of
   a for-hire vehicle or transportation network company driver
 
   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
 separately 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
 technician,  DRIVER OF A FOR-HIRE VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF
 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION  60.07  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  OR  TRANSPORTATION
 NETWORK COMPANY DRIVER AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION SIXTEEN
 HUNDRED  NINETY-ONE  OF  THE  VEHICLE  AND TRAFFIC LAW, 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  municipal law, traffic
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 3365                             2
 
 enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, 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, emergency  medical  service  paramedic,
 [or]  emergency medical service technician, DRIVER OF A FOR-HIRE VEHICLE
 AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 60.07 OF  THIS
 CHAPTER  OR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY DRIVER AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVI-
 SION FOUR OF SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAF-
 FIC LAW, while such employee is  performing  an  assigned  duty  on,  or
 directly  related  to,  the  operation  of a train or bus, including the
 cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, 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  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,
 DRIVER  OF A FOR-HIRE VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION
 TWO OF SECTION 60.07 OF THIS CHAPTER OR TRANSPORTATION  NETWORK  COMPANY
 DRIVER  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED NINE-
 TY-ONE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW is performing an assigned duty; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.