Bill Text: NY S00694 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes such police officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00694 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00694-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           694

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 aggravated harassment of a
          police officer

          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  § 240.33 Aggravated harassment of a police officer.
     4    A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer  when,
     5  with  intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person whom he or she
     6  knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, he or she causes
     7  or attempts to cause such police  officer  to  come  into  contact  with
     8  blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by
     9  throwing, tossing or expelling such such fluid or material.
    10    The  term  "police  officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
    11  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    12    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class E felony.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02533-01-3