New York A 11053: Relates to the crimes of assault in the second degree and assault in the first degree in places, conveyances, or vehicles used for public transportation or public transit

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A11053 Summary:

BILL NOA11053 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORTannousis

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COSPNSRBrown E

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§120.05 & 120.10, Pen L

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Provides that a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when such person recklessly or with intent to cause physical injury to another person causes physical injury to another person in any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or public transit; provides that a person is guilty of assault in the first degree when with intent to cause serious physical injury to another person such person causes such injury to such other person in any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or public transit.

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BILL NOA11053 

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04/24/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11053

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 24, 2026
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault in the first and
 second degree in places, conveyances, or vehicles used for public
 transportation or public transit

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
 2 by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and two new subdivisions
 3 15 and 16 are added to read as follows:
 4 14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
 5 section eighty-nine-t of the general business law, from performing a
 6 lawful duty pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and
 7 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such a process server
 8 for the performance of the process server's duties pursuant to such
 9 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
 10 evincing the actor's intent that the animal prevent or obstruct the
 11 lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process
 12 server, [he or she] such person causes physical injury to such process
 13 server[.]; or
 14 15. With intent to cause physical injury to another person, such
 15 person causes such injury to such other person or to a third person in
 16 any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or
 17 public transit, including subway cars, train cars, buses, ferries, rail-
 18 road, omnibus, marine or aviation transportation; or any facility used
 19 for or in connection with service in the transportation of passengers,
 20 airports, train stations, subway and rail stations, and bus terminals;
 21 or
 22 16. Such person recklessly causes physical injury to another person in
 23 any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or
 24 public transit, including subway cars, train cars, buses, ferries, rail-
 25 road, omnibus, marine or aviation transportation; or any facility used
 26 for or in connection with service in the transportation of passengers,
 27 airports, train stations, subway and rail stations, and bus terminals.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15444-01-6

 A. 11053 2

 1 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 120.10 of the penal law, as amended by
 2 chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is
 3 added to read as follows:
 4 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
 5 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, [he] such
 6 person, or another participant if there be any, causes serious physical
 7 injury to a person other than one of the participants[.]; or
 8 5. With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person,
 9 such person causes such injury to such other person or to a third person
 10 in any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or
 11 public transit, including subway cars, train cars, buses, ferries, rail-
 12 road, omnibus, marine or aviation transportation; or any facility used
 13 for or in connection with service in the transportation