Bill Text: NY S03121 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - PRINT NUMBER 3121A [S03121 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03121-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3121--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to first responders coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling from or by an individual The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.30 of the penal law is renum- 2 bered subdivision 6 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows: 3 5. With the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person 4 whom the actor knows or reasonably should know to be a first responder, 5 including but not limited to correction officers, such actor causes or 6 attempts to cause such first responder to come into contact with saliva 7 by spitting, throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid; or 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05096-03-4
