S 4055: Expands the types of transit and tolling employees protected from harassment under the penal law.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4055 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MATTERA -- 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 aggravated harassment 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 3-a of section 240.30 of the penal law, as 2 added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3-a. With the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another 5 person, such person strikes, shoves, kicks, throws something at, or 6 otherwise subjects another person to physical contact, which includes 7 spitting on such other person, and such other person is a train opera- 8 tor, ticket inspector, conductor, signalperson, bus operator, station 9 agent, station cleaner, terminal cleaner, station customer assistant, 10 traffic checker; person whose official duties include the sale or 11 collection of tickets, passes, vouchers, or other revenue payment media 12 for use on a train, bus, or ferry or the collection or handling of 13 revenues therefrom; a person whose official duties include the manage- 14 ment, administration, operation, construction, security, safety, law 15 enforcement, incident response, maintenance, repair, inspection, trou- 16 bleshooting, testing or cleaning of or at buses or ferries, a transit 17 signal system, elevated or underground subway tracks, transit station 18 structure, including fare equipment, escalators, elevators and other 19 equipment necessary to passenger service, commuter rail tracks or 20 stations, train yard, revenue train in passenger service, a ferry 21 station, or a train or bus station or terminal, roadways, walkways, 22 tunnels, bridges, central business district, tolling facilities or their 23 supporting systems, buildings or structures, vehicle towing, or opera- 24 tion of any vehicle of any transit or tolling agency or authority or 25 company; or a supervisor, manager, or administrator of such personnel, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07404-01-5 
 S. 4055 2 1 employed or contracted by any transit or tolling agency, authority or 2 company, public or private, whose operation is authorized or established 3 by New York state or any of its political subdivisions while such indi- 4 vidual is performing an assigned duty; or 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.