STATE OF NEW YORK
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9212
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting MTA workers
from harassment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 240.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise subjects another person to
4 physical contact, which includes spitting on such other person, and such
5 other person is an on-duty train operator; ticket inspector; conductor;
6 signalperson; bus operator; station agent; station cleaner; terminal
7 cleaner; station customer assistant; person whose official duties
8 include the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or other
9 fare payment media for use on a train or bus; person whose official
10 duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, troubleshooting,
11 testing or cleaning of a transit signal system, elevated or underground
12 subway tracks, transit station structure, train yard, revenue train in
13 passenger service, or train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor
14 of such personnel, employed by any transit agency, authority or company,
15 public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or
16 any of its political subdivisions; or
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09765-01-3
