Senate Bill S901

                             
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                                    901
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 of an operator or crew of a passenger commuter ferry

   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] AN OPERATOR OR CREW OF
 A PASSENGER COMMUTER FERRY AS DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  (N)  OF  SECTION
 THREE  HUNDRED OF THE TAX LAW, train operator, ticket inspector, conduc-
 tor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station cleaner,  termi-
 nal  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, trouble-
 shooting, 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD02789-01-5
 S. 901                              2
 
 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] 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 immediately.