| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jan 03, 2024 |
referred to codes |
| Jan 17, 2023 |
referred to codes |
Senate Bill S1913
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 62nd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 57th Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
(R, C) 51st Senate District
(R) 1st Senate District
2023-S1913 (ACTIVE) - Details
2023-S1913 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual; eliminates the requirement that an incarcerated individual causes or attempts to cause an employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, saliva, or the contents of a toilet bowl by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.
2023-S1913 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1913
SPONSOR: ORTT
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of
an employee by an incarcerated individual
PURPOSE:
This legislation removes language as it relates to causing an employee
to come into contact with certain body fluid by an inmate.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 Amends Section 240.32 of the penal law to remove the words
throwing, tossing, or expelling such fluid or material as it relates to
having an employee come into contact with saliva, blood, seminal fluid,
urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl.
Section 2 is the effective date
2023-S1913 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
1913
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 17, 2023
___________
Introduced by Sens. ORTT, GALLIVAN -- 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. Section 240.32 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 322
of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
§ 240.32 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated indi-
vidual.
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, seminal fluid, urine, feces, SALIVA, or the contents of a toilet
bowl[, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material].
For purposes of this section, "incarcerated individual" means an
incarcerated individual or detainee in a correctional facility, local
correctional facility or a hospital, as such term is defined in subdivi-
sion two of section four hundred of the correction law. For purposes of
this section, "respondent" means a juvenile in a secure facility oper-
ated and maintained by the office of children and family services who is
placed with or committed to the office of children and family services.
For purposes of this section, "facility" means a correctional facility
or local correctional facility, hospital, as such term is defined in
subdivision two of section four hundred of the correction law, or a
secure facility operated and maintained by the office of children and
family services.
Aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual is
a class E felony.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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