Bill Text: NY A03989 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of police officers, peace officers, court officers, emergency medical technicians or paramedics; provides that such crime is a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-11-10 - enacting clause stricken [A03989 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03989-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3989
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GOLDFEDER, BRINDISI -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
         aggravated  harassment of police officers, peace officers, court offi-
         cers, emergency medical technicians or paramedics
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33 to
    2  read as follows:
    3  S 240.33 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER, PEACE OFFICER, COURT
    4            OFFICER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR PARAMEDIC.
    5    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER, PEACE
    6  OFFICER, COURT OFFICER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR  PARAMEDIC  WHEN
    7  WITH  INTENT  TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN, HARM OR ALARM A PERSON WHOM HE
    8  OR SHE KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER,  A  PEACE
    9  OFFICER,  COURT  OFFICER,  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN  OR  PARAMEDIC
   10  ENGAGED IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING HIS OR HER OFFICIAL  DUTIES,  HE  OR
   11  SHE  CAUSES  THE POLICE OFFICER, PEACE OFFICER, COURT OFFICER, EMERGENCY
   12  MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR PARAMEDIC TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH BLOOD, SEMINAL
   13  FLUID, SALIVA, URINE OR FECES, BY THROWING, TOSSING  OR  EXPELLING  SUCH
   14  FLUID OR MATERIAL.
   15    AGGRAVATED  HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER, PEACE OFFICER, COURT OFFI-
   16  CER, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR PARAMEDIC IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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