Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4777
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 first responders coming
into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling
from or by an individual
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.30 of the penal law is renum-
2 bered subdivision 6 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
3 5. With the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person
4 whom the actor knows or reasonably should know to be a first responder,
5 including but not limited to correction officers, such actor causes or
6 attempts to cause such first responder to come into contact with saliva
7 by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid; or
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09554-01-5
