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Assembly Bill A477A

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility

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2011-A477 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2141
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A744, S7212
2013-2014: A1394, S2040
2015-2016: S1900
2017-2018: S2046
2019-2020: S6832
2021-2022: S2286
2023-2024: S4699
2025-2026: S392

2011-A477 - Summary

Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility; such conduct shall be aggravated harassment of an employee.

2011-A477 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   477

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER, PHEFFER, SPANO, CROUCH -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A.  MAGEE, McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the aggravated  harassment
  of an employee by an inmate

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 240.32  of  the
penal  law, as separately amended by chapters 422 and 441 of the laws of
2000, is amended to read as follows:
  An inmate or respondent is  guilty  of  aggravated  harassment  of  an
employee  by  an  inmate 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 division 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 or feces, OR
OTHER BODILY SECRETION OR EXCRETION OR THE CONTENTS OF A TOILET BOWL, by
throwing, tossing [or], EXPECTORATING, expelling OR PLACING  such  fluid
or material AT OR ON SUCH EMPLOYEE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD01903-01-1

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2011-A477A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2141
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A744, S7212
2013-2014: A1394, S2040
2015-2016: S1900
2017-2018: S2046
2019-2020: S6832
2021-2022: S2286
2023-2024: S4699
2025-2026: S392

2011-A477A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility; such conduct shall be aggravated harassment of an employee.

2011-A477A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 477--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, CROUCH, P. RIVERA, COLTON -- Multi-Spon-
  sored  by  --  M.    of  A.  MAGEE, McKEVITT, RUSSELL -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee  on
  Codes  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the aggravated  harassment
  of an employee by an inmate

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 240.32  of  the
penal law, as amended by section 127-p of subpart B of part C of chapter
62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  An  inmate  or  respondent  is  guilty  of aggravated harassment of an
employee by an inmate 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 or feces, OR
OTHER BODILY SECRETION OR EXCRETION OR THE CONTENTS OF A TOILET BOWL, by
throwing, tossing [or], EXPECTORATING, expelling OR PLACING  such  fluid
or material AT OR ON SUCH EMPLOYEE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD01903-03-2

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