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                                   2279
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER, ORTIZ, COLTON, WOERNER, BRAUNSTEIN,
   BLAKE, RODRIGUEZ, MOSLEY,  RAIA,  PALMESANO,  B. MILLER,  BRABENEC  --
   Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.    of  A. CROUCH, DiPIETRO, FRIEND, GALEF,
   GIGLIO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, STEC -- read once and referred  to
   the Committee on Codes

 AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to 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 opening paragraph of section 240.32 of the penal law,
 as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 2013, 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, 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.
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