Bill Text: NY A02279 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A02279 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02279-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2279
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        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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