Prohibits persons who were sentenced for a crime involving unlawful sexual conduct or assault from using public transportation including services in the transportation of passengers, airports, train stations, subway and rail stations, and bus terminals.
Establishes a new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
Enacts the "first responders assault prevention act" which increases the offense classification for assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter or emergency medical services professional from a class C felony to a class B felony.
S 8942 elevates assaults against water authority employees performing their duties to a felony offense. It directly affects workers employed by public benefit corporations (like water utilities) governed by Article 5 of New York’s Public Authorities Law. The bill adds a new provision (Subdivision 11-d) to the penal law, making it a felony to cause physical injury to these employees while they are supplying water to residents. This changes the legal penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony for this specific type of assault, without altering other existing protections for public safety or emergency personnel.
Establishes a new assault crime for an assault on a retired police officer who previously arrested the assailant; establishes that assaulting such a retired police officer with intent to seek retribution is assault in the first degree.
This bill raises penalties for assaulting certain public safety personnel in New York. It specifically increases second-degree assault on police officers, peace officers, firefighters, EMTs, sanitation workers, and other essential service workers from a class D felony to a class C felony (up to 15 years in prison). The law expands protections to include these workers when they're performing official duties, such as a sanitation worker enforcing regulations or a firefighter providing medical aid. It also upgrades aggravated assault on officers to a class A felony (up to 25 years). The bill applies directly to individuals who cause physical injury to these protected personnel while they're carrying out their jobs.
Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such defendant, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter; emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.
Makes the crime of preventing an elected official from performing a lawful duty or essential service a class D felony of assault in the second degree.
This bill creates new criminal offenses for drivers who enter active construction work zones carelessly or recklessly. It establishes two levels of vehicular assault (second degree for careless entry causing serious injury, first degree for reckless entry causing serious injury) and two levels of vehicular manslaughter (second degree for careless entry causing death, first degree for reckless entry causing death), all classified as felonies. The law also defines an "active work zone" as any area on public or private roads with workers present, properly marked by signs or cones. Violating the work zone entry rule (without authorization) is a class B misdemeanor punishable by fines up to $500 or up to 3 months in jail.
This bill amends New York's penal law to narrow the legal definition of "assault weapons" by removing specific features from the criteria. It deletes characteristics like bayonet mounts, certain pistol grips, fixed magazine capacity limits, and threaded barrels from the definition for rifles, shotguns, and pistols. As a result, firearms that previously met these deleted criteria would no longer be classified as assault weapons under current law. The change directly affects how state law defines and regulates certain firearms, without creating new restrictions or exemptions.
