Bill Text: NY S03208 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes or attempts to cause such police officer to come into contact with bottles, rocks, flammable liquids, hazardous or dangerous substances or objects, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally expectorating or expelling such fluid or material.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 20-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S03208 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03208-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3208

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AKSHAR, BORRELLO, BOYLE, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO,
          HELMING, JORDAN, LANZA, MARTUCCI, MATTERA, OBERACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO,
          RATH, RITCHIE, SERINO, STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- 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  bottles, rocks, flammable liquids, hazardous or dangerous substances  or
     9  objects, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva or the contents of a
    10  toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing, intentionally expectorating or expel-
    11  ling such fluid or material.
    12    The  term  "police  officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
    13  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    14    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class D felony.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05394-02-1