Relates to the harassment of certain employees of a transit agency or authority whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5917
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 harassing certain employ-
ees of a transit agency or authority
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 a train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signal-
6 person, bus operator or station agent employed by any transit agency,
7 authority or company, public or private, whose operation is authorized
8 by New York state or any of its political subdivisions; or
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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