New York Senate Bill S00694 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 694 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 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