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Senate Bill S3090
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 62nd Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R) 39th Senate District
2025-S3090 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S3090 (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.
2025-S3090 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3090
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 encounter 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 encounter saliva, blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces,
or the contents of a toilet bowl.
Section 2 is the effective date
2025-S3090 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3090
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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] SUCH PERSON 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,
[he or she] SUCH PERSON 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01040-01-5
S. 3090 2
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