New York S 8184: Establishes tiers of essential employees during a state of emergency

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S08184 Summary:

BILL NOS08184 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08854

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSROBERACKER, RHOADS, ROLISON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §120.05, Pen L; add §§118-a, 118-b & 118-c, V & T L

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Adds assault of a highway worker, motor vehicle investigator and motor vehicle inspector to the crime of assault in the second degree; defines such terms.

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BILL NOS08184 

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05/19/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8184

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

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

 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 construction, maintenance, repair,
 11 inspection, troubleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses or ferries, a
 12 transit signal system, elevated or underground subway tracks, transit
 13 station or transportation structure, including fare equipment, escala-
 14 tors, elevators and other equipment necessary to passenger service,
 15 commuter rail tracks or stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger
 16 service, a ferry station, or a train or bus station or terminal, or any
 17 roadways, walkways, tunnels, bridges, tolling facilities or their
 18 supporting systems, building or structures; or a supervisor of such
 19 personnel, employed by any transit or commuter rail agency, authority or
 20 company, public or private, whose operation is authorized or established
 21 by New York state or any of its political subdivisions, a city marshal,
 22 a school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred
 23 eight-a of the general municipal law, a traffic enforcement officer,
 24 traffic enforcement agent, motor vehicle license examiner, motor vehicle
 25 representative, highway worker as defined in section one hundred eigh-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13177-01-5

 S. 8184 2

 1 teen-a of the vehicle and traffic law, motor carrier investigator as
 2 defined in section one hundred eighteen-b of the vehicle and traffic
 3 law, motor vehicle inspector as defined in section one hundred eigh-
 4 teen-c of the vehicle and traffic law, prosecutor as defined in subdivi-
 5 sion thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, sanita-
 6 tion enforcement agent, New York city sanitation worker, public health
 7 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, registered nurse,
 8 licensed practical nurse, emergency medical service paramedic, or emer-
 9 gency medical service technician, [he or she] such person causes phys-
 10 ical injury to such train operator, ticket inspector, conductor, signal-
 11 person, bus operator, station agent, station cleaner, terminal cleaner,
 12 station customer assistant, traffic checker; person whose official
 13 duties include the sale or collection of tickets, passes, vouchers or
 14 other revenue payment media for use on a train, bus, or ferry or the
 15 collection or handling of revenues therefrom; a person whose official
 16 duties include the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, trou-
 17 bleshooting, testing or cleaning of buses or ferries, a transit signal
 18 system, elevated