New or enhanced criminal penalty bills given hearings this week

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It’s already felony to spit at a prison guard. Now a bill making its way through the state legislature would also make it a crime to throw or expel bodily fluids at a police officer, firefighter or emergency medical technician. Gilman Halsted reports.

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