Senate Bill S2046

2017-2018 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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2017-S2046 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A659
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
2013-2014: S2040, A8810
2015-2016: S1900, A1105
2019-2020: S6832, A2279
2021-2022: S2286, A3636
2023-2024: S4699

2017-S2046 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.

2017-S2046 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2046
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. BONACIC, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, RANZEN-
   HOFER, RITCHIE -- 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 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

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