Senate Bill S6662

                             
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                                   6662
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 19, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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  assaults  on  medical
   providers and employees and volunteers of hospitals
 
   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,] A PHYSI-
 CIAN, A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, A HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER,  A  PRIMARY  CARE
 PRACTITIONER  OR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A NURSE OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL
 INCLUDING A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE PRACTITIONER, CERTIFIED OR  LICENSED
 NURSE PRACTITIONER, A CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTI-
 CAL  NURSE,  AMBULANCE  PERSONNEL, A DIRECTOR OF A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL
 DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT  OR  VOLUNTEER  OF  A  HOSPITAL  AS
 DEFINED  IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, A
 public health sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian,  sani-
 tation  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefight-
 er, including a firefighter acting as a paramedic or  emergency  medical
 technician  administering first aid in the course of performance of duty
 as such firefighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency
 medical service technician, or medical or related personnel in a  hospi-
 tal  emergency  department,  a  city  marshal,  a  school crossing guard
 appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
 pal law, a traffic 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09917-01-5
              

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 means  including releasing or failing to control an animal under circum-
 stances 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,]  PHYSICIAN,  PHYSICIAN
 ASSISTANT,  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER, PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONER OR PRIMARY
 CARE PHYSICIAN, A NURSE OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL INCLUDING  A  REGISTERED
 NURSE,  NURSE  PRACTITIONER, CERTIFIED OR LICENSED NURSE PRACTITIONER, A
 CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED  PRACTICAL  NURSE,  AMBULANCE
 PERSONNEL,  A  DIRECTOR  OF  A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE,
 ATTENDANT, AGENT OR VOLUNTEER OF A HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SECTION  TWEN-
 TY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, A public health sanitari-
 an,  New  York  city  public  health  sanitarian, sanitation enforcement
 agent, New York city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic,  techni-
 cian,  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 causes] THEY CAUSE 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,] PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, HEALTH
 CARE  PROVIDER,  PRIMARY  CARE PRACTITIONER OR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A
 NURSE OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL INCLUDING A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE  PRAC-
 TITIONER,  CERTIFIED OR LICENSED NURSE PRACTITIONER, A CERTIFIED NURSING
 ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, AMBULANCE PERSONNEL, A  DIREC-
 TOR  OF  A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT OR
 VOLUNTEER OF A HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  ONE
 OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW,  A 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,  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]  PHYSICIAN,
 PHYSICIAN  ASSISTANT, HEALTH CARE PROVIDER, PRIMARY CARE PRACTITIONER OR
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 PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A NURSE  OR  NURSING  PROFESSIONAL  INCLUDING  A
 REGISTERED  NURSE, NURSE PRACTITIONER, CERTIFIED OR LICENSED NURSE PRAC-
 TITIONER, A CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTICAL  NURSE,
 AMBULANCE  PERSONNEL,  A  DIRECTOR  OF A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL DIRECTOR,
 EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT OR VOLUNTEER OF  A  HOSPITAL  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  ONE  OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, emergency
 medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician,  [he
 or she causes] THEY CAUSE physical injury to such 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  or 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,
 city marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant  to  section  two
 hundred  eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement offi-
 cer, traffic enforcement agent, prosecutor  as  defined  in  subdivision
 thirty-one  of  section  1.20 of the criminal procedure law, [registered
 nurse, licensed practical nurse] PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT,  HEALTH
 CARE  PROVIDER,  PRIMARY  CARE PRACTITIONER OR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A
 NURSE OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL INCLUDING A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE  PRAC-
 TITIONER,  CERTIFIED OR LICENSED NURSE PRACTITIONER, A CERTIFIED NURSING
 ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, AMBULANCE PERSONNEL, A  DIREC-
 TOR  OF  A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT OR
 VOLUNTEER OF A HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  ONE
 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, public health sanitarian, New York city public
 health  sanitarian,  sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanita-
 tion 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 customers, checking  traf-
 fic,  the  sale  or  collection  of  tickets, passes, vouchers, or other
 revenue media for use on a train, bus, or ferry or maintenance or clean-
 ing of a train, a bus, a ferry,  or  bus  station  or  terminal,  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 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 procedure law, [registered nurse,
 licensed practical nurse] PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN  ASSISTANT,  HEALTH  CARE
 PROVIDER,  PRIMARY  CARE PRACTITIONER OR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN, A NURSE
 OR NURSING PROFESSIONAL INCLUDING A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE  PRACTITION-
 ER,  CERTIFIED  OR  LICENSED  NURSE  PRACTITIONER,  A  CERTIFIED NURSING
 ASSISTANT, OR A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, AMBULANCE PERSONNEL, A  DIREC-
 TOR  OF  A HOSPITAL OR A MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE, ATTENDANT, AGENT OR
 VOLUNTEER OF A HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  ONE
 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, public health sanitarian, New York city public
 health  sanitarian,  sanitation enforcement agent, New York city sanita-
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 tion 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.