A 5756: Relates to first responders, including correction officers, coming into contact with saliva by spitting, throwing, tossing, or expelling from or by an individual.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5756 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, EACHUS, ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, STERN, DINOWITZ, BURKE, JONES, SEPTIMO, SAYEGH, COLTON, WILLIAMS, STECK, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes 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. LBD09554-01-5