 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6391
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 6, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault on caseworkers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as sepa-
     2  rately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    11.  With  intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
     5  inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
     6  cleaner or terminal cleaner employed by any transit agency, authority or
     7  company, public or private, whose operation is authorized  by  New  York
     8  state  or  any  of  its political subdivisions, a city marshal, a school
     9  crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of  the
    10  general  municipal  law, a traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforce-
    11  ment agent, prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one  of  section
    12  1.20  of  the  criminal procedure law, sanitation enforcement agent, New
    13  York city sanitation worker, public health  sanitarian,  New  York  city
    14  public  health  sanitarian,  registered nurse, licensed practical nurse,
    15  emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service  tech-
    16  nician,  he or she causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket
    17  inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
    18  cleaner  or  terminal  cleaner,  city  marshal,  school  crossing  guard
    19  appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general munici-
    20  pal  law, traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent, prose-
    21  cutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the crimi-
    22  nal procedure law, registered nurse, licensed  practical  nurse,  public
    23  health  sanitarian,  New  York city public health sanitarian, sanitation
    24  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation  worker,  emergency  medical
    25  service  paramedic,  or emergency medical service technician, while such
    26  employee is performing an assigned duty on, or directly related to,  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07928-01-7

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     1  operation  of  a  train or bus, including the cleaning of a train or bus
     2  station or terminal, or such city marshal, school crossing guard,  traf-
     3  fic  enforcement  officer,  traffic  enforcement  agent,  prosecutor  as
     4  defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal proce-
     5  dure law, caseworker, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public
     6  health  sanitarian,  New  York city public health sanitarian, sanitation
     7  enforcement agent, New York city sanitation  worker,  emergency  medical
     8  service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician is performing
     9  an assigned duty; or
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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