S 4055 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to aggravated harassment in the second degree

Bill S 4055 expands New York's aggravated harassment law to protect additional transit and tolling workers. It specifically adds train operators, ticket inspectors, conductors, station cleaners, fare collectors, maintenance staff, and their supervisors to the list of protected individuals under penal law. The bill makes it a crime to harass these workers while they perform their duties, including physical contact like spitting or blocking access to equipment. This directly affects employees of public and private transit/tolling agencies across New York State. The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.
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Introduced Jan 31, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026
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