Bill Text: NY A01520 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to assault in the third degree by a person against an operator, driver or passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway or other motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01520-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1520

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to assault in the third
          degree

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 120.00 of the penal law is renum-
     2  bered subdivision 4, and a  new  subdivision  3  is  added  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3. He or she causes physical injury to an operator, driver, or passen-
     5  ger  on  a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway, or other motor vehicle,
     6  used for the transportation of persons for hire,  or  to  a  school  bus
     7  driver,  a  station  agent  or ticket agent for the entity providing the
     8  transportation, and he or she knows or reasonably should know  that  the
     9  victim,  in the case of an operator, driver, or agent, is engaged in the
    10  performance of his or her duties, or is a passenger; or
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01467-01-3