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Senate Bill S1501

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual

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2025-S1501 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8520
2019-2020: S1883
2021-2022: S5498
2023-2024: S2211

2025-S1501 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the throwing, tossing or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional facility within the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee by an incarcerated individual.

2025-S1501 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1501 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1501
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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  including  the  throwing,
   tossing  or expelling of saliva at or on an employee of a correctional
   facility within the crime of 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] SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL OR RESPONDENT knows or reason-
 ably 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] SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL OR
 RESPONDENT  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  mate-
 rial.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04404-01-5

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