New York Senate Bill S01247 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1247 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- 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 expanding the offense of assault in the second degree to include the causing of injury to a frontline employee enforcing a city or state rule or regulation related to controlling the spread of communicable diseases The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The purpose of this act is to provide 2 additional protection to the frontline employees who have been deputized 3 by the state and by local governments to enforce the various rules and 4 regulations surrounding controlling the spread of communicable diseases. 5 State and local governments have instituted various policies such as 6 requiring the wearing of personal protective equipment and requiring 7 patrons to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. They have left 8 enforcement of such policies up to local restaurants, venue employees, 9 bus drivers, teachers and other frontline employees. Recent attacks on 10 restaurant employees have shown that due to the politicized nature of 11 these public health policies, we must provide additional protection to 12 frontline employees who are charged with enforcing the various rules and 13 regulations put forth to reduce the spread of communicable diseases. 14 § 2. Section 120.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi- 15 vision 15 to read as follows: 16 15. With intent to prevent or obstruct any frontline employee from 17 enforcing any city or state rule or regulation related to controlling 18 the spread of communicable diseases, he or she causes physical injury to 19 such frontline employee. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04827-01-3