Assembly Bill A1394A

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits the throwing of the contents of a toilet bowl on an employee of a correctional facility

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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-A1394 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5858
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A744
2011-2012: A477

2013-A1394 - Summary

Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility; such conduct shall be aggravated harassment of an employee.

2013-A1394 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1394

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, CROUCH, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. MAGEE, McKEVITT, RUSSELL -- read once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the 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 first undesignated paragraph of section 240.32 of the
penal law, as amended by section 127-p of subpart B of part C of chapter
62 of the laws of 2011, 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 or feces,  OR
OTHER BODILY SECRETION OR EXCRETION OR THE CONTENTS OF A TOILET BOWL, by
throwing,  tossing  [or], EXPECTORATING, expelling OR PLACING such fluid
or material AT OR ON SUCH EMPLOYEE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02402-01-3

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2013-A1394A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5858
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A744
2011-2012: A477

2013-A1394A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion at or on an employee of a correctional facility; such conduct shall be aggravated harassment of an employee.

2013-A1394A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 1394--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, CROUCH, COLTON, ABBATE, RAIA, BOYLAND,
  ZEBROWSKI, SCARBOROUGH, GOODELL,  STECK,  HOOPER,  SEPULVEDA,  TENNEY,
  RYAN,  DIPIETRO,  STEC,  BRINDISI  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
  BARCLAY, CERETTO, HAWLEY, KEARNS, MAGEE, McKEVITT, RIVERA, RUSSELL  --
  read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the 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 first undesignated paragraph of section 240.32  of  the
penal law, as amended by section 127-p of subpart B of part C of chapter
62 of the laws of 2011, 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, seminal fluid, urine [or], feces, OR THE
CONTENTS OF A TOILET BOWL, by throwing, tossing or expelling such  fluid
or material.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02402-04-3

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