Bill Text: NY A01427 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1427

Introduced

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) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01427 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01427-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1427

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JONES, COLTON, McDONOUGH, BLANKENBUSH, RIVERA,
          MIKULIN, MANKTELOW -- 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.
                                                                   LBD02533-01-3