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Assembly Bill A1548A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to first responders coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual

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2023-A1548 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3121
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9247, S8709
2025-2026: A5756, S4777

2023-A1548 - Summary

Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.

2023-A1548 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1548
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, SILLITTI -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  first  responders  coming
   into  contact  with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling
   from or by an individual

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.30 of the penal law is renum-
 bered subdivision 6 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
   5. WITH THE INTENT TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM ANOTHER  PERSON
 WHOM  HE OR SHE KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A FIRST RESPONDER,
 HE OR SHE CAUSES OR ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE SUCH FIRST RESPONDER TO COME  INTO
 CONTACT  WITH  SALIVA  BY  SPITTING, THROWING, TOSSING OR EXPELLING SUCH
 FLUID; OR
   § 2. 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 OR FIRST RESPONDER by an incarcerated individ-
 ual  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 employ-
 ee 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 OR
 A  FIRST  RESPONDER, 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 SPITTING, throwing, tossing or  expel-
 ling such fluid or material.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05096-01-3

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2023-A1548A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3121
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9247, S8709
2025-2026: A5756, S4777

2023-A1548A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.

2023-A1548A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1548--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BUTTENSCHON, SILLITTI, FLOOD, GUNTHER, EACHUS,
   ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO -- 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  first  responders  coming
   into  contact  with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling
   from or by an individual
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.30 of the penal law is renum-
 bered subdivision 6 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
   5. WITH THE INTENT TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM ANOTHER  PERSON
 WHOM  THE ACTOR KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A FIRST RESPONDER,
 INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CORRECTION OFFICERS, SUCH ACTOR  CAUSES  OR
 ATTEMPTS  TO CAUSE SUCH FIRST RESPONDER TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH SALIVA
 BY SPITTING, THROWING, TOSSING OR EXPELLING SUCH FLUID; OR
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05096-02-4

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