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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
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Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, BRINDISI, SEPULVEDA, ORTIZ, RUSSELL --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  CERETTO,  DiPIETRO,  GALEF,  GIGLIO,
  GOODELL, STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee 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.
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