What's happening
This bill adds supervisory personnel of transit systems to those protected under second-degree assault laws in New York.
Why it matters
Expanding protections to supervisory transit personnel recognizes their increasing role in maintaining safety and order on public transit systems. , making it a felony to assault these individuals while they are performing work duties.
This amendment could improve working conditions and morale for supervisory staff. , who may face threats or violence when intervening in difficult incidents, by signaling that the law takes assaults against them as seriously as it does for front-line operators.
By including supervisory personnel among those protected, the law aims to deter potential assailants and support a safer transit environment overall. , which may benefit riders, operators, and broader transit operations.
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Protect Transit Supervisors from Assault
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- Referred to codes
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Protect Transit Supervisors
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6598
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault in the second degree upon a supervisory member of a transit system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as separately amended by chapters 268 and 281 of the laws of 2016, 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 [or], terminal cleaner or supervisory personnel employed by any transit 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 causes physical injury to such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station cleaner [or], terminal cleaner, or supervisory 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
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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, including the cleaning of a train or bus station or terminal, 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, 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.
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