S 629: Relates to assault in the third degree by a person against an operator, driver or passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway or other motor vehicle.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 629 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 third degree 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 120.00 of the penal law is renum- 2 bered subdivision 4, and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as 3 follows: 4 3. such person causes physical injury to an operator, driver, or 5 passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway, or other motor 6 vehicle, used for the transportation of persons for hire, or to a school 7 bus driver, a station agent or ticket agent for the entity providing the 8 transportation, and such person knows or reasonably should know that the 9 victim, in the case of an operator, driver, or agent, is engaged in the 10 performance of such victim's duties, or is a passenger; or 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01548-01-5