A 8221: Elevates assault to a felony when committed against a water authority employee in the course of performing their duties.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8221 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assaults against water authority employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 267 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdi- 3 vision 11-d is added to read as follows: 4 3. With intent to prevent a peace officer, a police officer, prosecu- 5 tor as defined in subdivision thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal 6 procedure law, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health 7 sanitarian, New York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforce- 8 ment agent, New York city sanitation worker, a firefighter, including a 9 firefighter acting as a paramedic or emergency medical technician admin- 10 istering first aid in the course of performance of duty as such fire- 11 fighter, an emergency medical service paramedic or emergency medical 12 service technician, or medical or related personnel in a hospital emer- 13 gency department, a city marshal, a school crossing guard appointed 14 pursuant to section two hundred eight-a of the general municipal law, a 15 traffic enforcement officer, traffic enforcement agent [or], employee of 16 any entity governed by the public service law, or employee of a public 17 benefit corporation governed by article five of the public authorities 18 law which supplies water to the residents of the state in the course of 19 performing an essential service, from performing a lawful duty, by means 20 including releasing or failing to control an animal under circumstances 21 evincing the actor's intent that the animal obstruct the lawful activity 22 of such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivi- 23 sion thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, regis- 24 tered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New 25 York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11735-01-5 
 A. 8221 2 1 York city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic, technician, city 2 marshal, school crossing guard appointed pursuant to section two hundred 3 eight-a of the general municipal law, traffic enforcement officer, traf- 4 fic enforcement agent [or], employee of an entity governed by the public 5 service law, [he or she] or employee of a public benefit corporation 6 governed by article five of the public authorities law which supplies 7 water to the residents of the state, such person causes physical injury 8 to such peace officer, police officer, prosecutor as defined in subdivi- 9 sion thirty-one of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, regis- 10 tered nurse, licensed practical nurse, public health sanitarian, New 11 York city public health sanitarian, sanitation enforcement agent, New 12 York city sanitation worker, firefighter, paramedic, technician or 13 medical or related personnel in a hospital emergency department, city 14 marshal, school crossing guard, traffic enforcement officer, traffic 15 enforcement agent [or], employee of an entity governed by the public 16 service law, or employee of a public benefit corporation governed by 17 article five of the public authorities law which supplies water to the 18 residents of the state; or 19 11-d. With intent to cause physical injury to an employee of a public 20 benefit corporation governed by article five of the public authorities 21 law performing such employee's lawful duties supplying water to the 22 residents of the state, such person causes physical injury to such 23 employee; or 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.