Assembly Bill A8810

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A8810 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2040
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7212
2011-2012: S2141
2015-2016: A1105, S1900
2017-2018: A659, S2046
2019-2020: A2279, S6832
2021-2022: A3636, S2286
2023-2024: S4699

2013-A8810 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.

2013-A8810 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8810

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 14, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated  harassment  of
  an employee by an inmate

  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  180 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
follows:
  An inmate or respondent is  guilty  of  aggravated  harassment  of  an
employee  by  an  inmate 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, SALIVA, seminal fluid,  urine,  feces,  or
the  contents  of  a  toilet  bowl,  by throwing, tossing, INTENTIONALLY
EXPECTORATING or expelling such fluid or material.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14016-01-4

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