S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1150
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
S. 1150 2
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.