Assembly Bill A2256

2021-2022 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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2021-A2256 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A5491
2019-2020: A1760
2023-2024: A1869

2021-A2256 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate; eliminates the requirement that an inmate causes or attempts to cause an employee to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material.

2021-A2256 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2256
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, BLANKENBUSH, SALKA -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A.  BARCLAY, FRIEND, WALSH -- 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.  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,  the
 opening  paragraph  as  amended  by  chapter 180 of the laws of 2013, is
 amended to read as follows:
 § 240.32 Aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate.
   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,  feces,  or  the
 contents of a toilet bowl[, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid
 or material].
   For  purposes of this section, "inmate" means an inmate or detainee in
 a correctional facility, local correctional facility or a  hospital,  as
 such  term  is defined in subdivision two of section four hundred of the
 correction law. For purposes of this section, "respondent" means a juve-
 nile in a secure facility operated and maintained by the office of chil-
 dren and family services who is placed with or committed to  the  office
 of  children and family services. For purposes of this section, "facili-
 ty" means a correctional facility or local correctional facility, hospi-
 tal, as such term is defined in subdivision two of section four  hundred
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02172-01-1

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