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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  BRINDISI, SEPULVEDA, ORTIZ, JENNE,
   COLTON, WOERNER, SKOUFIS, BRAUNSTEIN, BLAKE, RODRIGUEZ, BRABENEC, RAIA
   -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CROUCH,  DiPIETRO,  FRIEND,  GALEF,
   GIGLIO,  GOODELL,  McDONOUGH,  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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02986-01-7