New York S 1501: Includes the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual

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S01501 Summary:

BILL NOS01501 

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SPONSORO'MARA

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Includes the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual.

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01/10/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1501

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 10, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- 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 including the throwing,
 tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional
 facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by
 an incarcerated individual

 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 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 An incarcerated individual or respondent is guilty of aggravated
 5 harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual when, with
 6 intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person in a facility whom
 7 [he or she] such incarcerated individual or respondent knows or reason-
 8 ably should know to be an employee of such facility or the board of
 9 parole or the office of mental health, or a probation department, bureau
 10 or unit or a police officer, [he or she] such incarcerated individual or
 11 respondent causes or attempts to cause such employee to come into
 12 contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, or the contents
 13 of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or mate-
 14 rial.
 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 16 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04404-01-5

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