Bill Text: NY A06443 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A06443 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06443-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6443 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2017 ___________ 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. LBD05997-01-7
