Bill Text: NY A03378 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A03378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03378-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3378
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD05968-01-9