Senate Bill S4699

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7212
2011-2012: S2141
2013-2014: S2040
2015-2016: S1900
2017-2018: S2046
2019-2020: S6832
2021-2022: S2286

2023-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds the intentional expectoration of saliva to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual.

2023-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4699
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. PALUMBO, GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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
   an employee by an incarcerated individual
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The opening paragraph of section 240.32 of the penal law,
 as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   An  incarcerated  individual  or  respondent  is  guilty of aggravated
 harassment of an employee  by  an  incarcerated  individual  when,  with
 intent  to  harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person in a facility whom
 he or she knows or reasonably should know to  be  an  employee  of  such
 facility  or  the  board  of parole or the office of mental health, or a
 probation department, bureau or unit or a  police  officer,  he  or  she
 causes  or  attempts  to  cause  such employee to come into contact with
 blood, SALIVA, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a  toilet
 bowl,  by  throwing,  tossing,  INTENTIONALLY EXPECTORATING or expelling
 such fluid or material.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09023-01-3

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