What's happening
This bill expands second degree assault protections to include supervisory personnel of any transit system in New York State.
Why it matters
Expanding these protections may help improve workplace safety. for supervisory personnel in transit systems, who sometimes face threats or violence while overseeing operations, resolving conflicts, or enforcing rules.
By including supervisory personnel alongside frontline workers (like conductors and bus operators), the law signals that assaults against any key transit staff are taken seriously. , which could deter potential offenders and reinforce the value of supervisory roles.
This change could impact prosecution and sentencing. for incidents involving supervisory transit staff, making it easier to charge assailants with felony-level assault, which carries more severe penalties than lower-level offenses.
Broader legal protection may also support recruitment and retention of supervisory staff. , who might otherwise feel vulnerable to assault without the same legal safeguards as other transit employees.
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Protect Transit Supervisors
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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–5
- Ordered to third reading cal.1819
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
- Referred to codes
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Protect Transit Supervisors from Assault
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1760
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 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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Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to assault in the second degree upon a supervisory member of a transit system
Purpose or general idea of bill
To include supervisory personnel employed by a transit agency, authority, or company whose operation is authorized by New York State or any of its political subdivision in the existing 2nd degree assault provisions found in Penal Law section 120.05(11).
Summary of provisions
Section one of this bill amends subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the Penal law, to add to the offense of assault in the 2nd degree, intentionally causing physical injury to the supervisory personnel employed by a transit agency, authority, or company whose operation is authorized by New York State or any of its political subdivision.
Section two of this bill provides that this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
Existing law
Currently, Penal Law section 120.05(11) does not specifically include Supervisory personnel employed by a transit agency.
Justification
Supervisory personnel employed by a transit agency work with, and among the public to help ensure that trains and busses run on schedule and quite often, supervisors are on location and interact with members of the public when an extraordinary event occurs. Unfortunately, these employees are easy targets for those who seek to intentionally harm others. This bill would help protect these supervisory employees by providing as a deterrent to those who seek to harm them.
Prior legislative history
2016: S.7866 - Referred to Codes
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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