Bill Text: NY A00953 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a police officer where a person causes such police officer 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.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A00953 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00953-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           953
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES, COLTON, LAVINE, D'URSO, MONTESANO, BYRNE,
          RAIA, CROUCH, McDONOUGH,  BLANKENBUSH,  RIVERA,  MIKULIN,  PALUMBO  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of A. DICKENS, FRIEND, LUPARDO, THIELE --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of a
          police officer
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.33 Aggravated harassment of a police officer.
     4    A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a police officer  when,
     5  with  intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a person whom he or she
     6  knows or reasonably should know to be a police officer, he or she causes
     7  or attempts to cause such police  officer  to  come  into  contact  with
     8  blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by
     9  throwing, tossing or expelling such such fluid or material.
    10    The  term  "police  officer" shall mean a police officer as defined in
    11  subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    12    Aggravated harassment of a police officer is a class E felony.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02733-01-9