STATE OF NEW YORK
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2279
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ORTIZ, COLTON, WOERNER, BRAUNSTEIN,
BLAKE, RODRIGUEZ, MOSLEY, RAIA, PALMESANO, B. MILLER, BRABENEC --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, DiPIETRO, FRIEND, GALEF,
GIGLIO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, STEC -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of
an employee by an inmate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 240.32 of the penal law,
2 as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 An inmate or respondent is guilty of aggravated harassment of an
5 employee by an inmate when, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or
6 alarm a person in a facility whom he or she knows or reasonably should
7 know to be an employee of such facility or the board of parole or the
8 office of mental health, or a probation department, bureau or unit or a
9 police officer, he or she causes or attempts to cause such employee to
10 come into contact with blood, saliva, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or
11 the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally
12 expectorating or expelling such fluid or material.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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