Bill Text: NY A08480 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to correction [A08480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08480-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8480
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 16, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county
          correction officers  from  dispensing  medication  using  syringes  or
          needles in jails to inmates
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 505 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  County  correction officers in local correctional facilities shall
     4  not dispense or administer medication using hypodermic syringes or hypo-
     5  dermic needles to inmates on the premises of a local correctional facil-
     6  ity as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two  of  this  chapter,
     7  unless  they are otherwise authorized to do so. This provision shall not
     8  apply to dispensing of pill-based medication to inmates.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13068-02-7