New York A 4928: Relates to increasing penalties for assault, obstruction and harassment of an election officer

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A04928 Summary:

BILL NOA04928 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05696

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SPONSORDinowitz

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§120.05, 195.05 & 240.30, Pen L

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Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to an election officer while such person is performing their assigned duties; amends aggravated harassment and obstruction of governmental administration to include election officers.

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BILL NOA04928 

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02/10/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4928

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing penalties for
 assault, obstruction and harassment of election officers

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as
 2 amended by section 2 of part Z of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 11. With intent to cause physical injury to a train operator, ticket
 5 inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent, station
 6 cleaner, terminal cleaner, station customer assistant, traffic checker;
 7 person whose official duties include the sale or collection of tickets,
 8 passes, vouchers, or other revenue payment media for use on a train,
 9 bus, or ferry the collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person
 10 whose official duties include the maintenance, repair, inspection, trou-
 11 bleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses or ferries, a transit signal
 12 system, elevated or underground subway tracks, transit station struc-
 13 ture, including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and other equip-
 14 ment necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or stations,
 15 train yard, revenue train in passenger service, a ferry station, or a
 16 train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor of such personnel,
 17 employed by any transit or commuter rail agency, authority or company,
 18 public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or
 19 any of its political subdivisions, a city marshal, a school crossing
 20 guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general
 21 municipal law, a traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent,
 22 prosecutor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the
 23 criminal procedure law, sanitation enforcement agent, New York city
 24 sanitation worker, public health sanitarian, New York city public health
 25 sanitarian, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, emergency

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08836-01-5

 A. 4928 2

 1 medical service paramedic, [or] emergency medical service technician,
 2 [he or she] or election officer as defined in section 1-104 of the
 3 election law, such person causes physical injury to such train operator,
 4 ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station agent,
 5 station cleaner, terminal cleaner, station customer assistant, traffic
 6 checker; person whose official duties include the sale or collection of
 7 tickets, passes, vouchers or other revenue payment media for use on a
 8 train, bus, or ferry or the collection or handling of revenues there-
 9 from; a person whose official duties include the maintenance, repair,
 10 inspection, troubleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses or ferries, a
 11 transit signal system, elevated or underground subway tracks, transit
 12 station structure, including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and
 13 other equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or
 14 stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service, a ferry
 15 station, or a train or bus station or terminal; or a supervisor of such
 16 personnel, city marshal, school crossing guard