Senate Bill S4573

                             
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                                   4573
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- 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 including assault of main-
   tenance employees of the triborough bridge and tunnel authority in the
   definition of assault in the second degree

   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 section 2 of part Z of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2024,  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, 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 MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEE OF THE TRIBOR-
 OUGH  BRIDGE  AND  TUNNEL  AUTHORITY,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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] SUCH PERSON causes physical injury to such train operator, tick-
 et  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 there-
 from; a person whose official duties include  the  maintenance,  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 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 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 operation of a train or
 bus,  cleaning  of a train or bus station or terminal, assisting custom-
 ers, checking traffic, the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouch-
 ers, or other revenue media for use on a train, bus, or ferry or mainte-
 nance 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 enforce-
 ment officer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor as defined in subdi-
 vision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law,  regis-
 tered  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 is performing an assigned duty; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.