Bill Text: NY A01770 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to providing only plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities for use in cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining facility located within.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A01770 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01770-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1770

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, McDONOUGH, SANTABARBARA, RIVERA, MIKULIN
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, COOK, FRIEND --  read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing plastic or
          composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 627
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 627. Eating utensils. All eating utensils provided by state  correc-
     4  tional  facilities  to  individuals housed in such facilities for use in
     5  cafeterias, mess halls, canteens,  commissaries,  or  any  other  dining
     6  facility  located  within,  shall be made solely from plastic or another
     7  composite material.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02511-01-3
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