Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility; such conduct shall be aggravated harassment of an employee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2040--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. BONACIC, AVELLA, BALL, CARLUCCI, GALLIVAN, GRISANTI,
MAZIARZ, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed
to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the
Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the 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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