| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jan 08, 2025 |
referred to codes |
Senate Bill S392
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) 1st Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 60th Senate District
(R, C) 54th Senate District
2025-S392 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S392 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S392
SPONSOR: PALUMBO
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of
an employee by an incarcerated individual
PURPOSE:
To amend the penal law in relation to aggravated harassment of an
employee by an inmate to include acts or actions by an inmate which are
not currently covered.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the first undesignated paragraph of section 240.32 of
the penal law to include the conduct of intentionally expectorating upon
an employee within the provisions of aggravated harassment of an employ-
ee by an inmate.
Section 2 sets forth the effective date.
2025-S392 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
392
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sens. PALUMBO, GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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. 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, 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.
LBD01575-01-5
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