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NY S09924

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/4/2024

Primary Sponsor

Iwen Chu

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Creates new crime of "assault on a food delivery person" as a Class E felony under Penal Law Section 120.19-a
  • Defines assault on food delivery person as causing physical injury during performance of delivery duties or striking, shoving, kicking, or spitting on an on-duty food delivery person
  • Defines "food delivery person" as anyone employed or engaged by restaurants, licensed retail food stores, or third-party vendors to deliver food or goods to customers
  • Defines "restaurant" broadly to include coffee shops, cafeterias, diners, fast food establishments, food trucks, bubble tea shops, and any eating/beverage establishment offering food delivery
  • Effective 90 days after becoming law

Legislative Description

Establishes the crime of assault on a food delivery person as a class E felony; defines a food delivery person to mean a person employed by a restaurant, or put into service by a restaurant, retail food store licensed by the department of agriculture and markets, or a third party vendor, or to deliver food or other goods pursuant to an order placed by a customer.

Last Action

PRINT NUMBER 9924A

10/7/2024

Committee Referrals

Rules10/4/2024

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