Bill Text: NY A08918 | 2021-2022 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-19 - referred to correction [A08918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08918-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8918

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN,  GOTTFRIED,  TAYLOR -- 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.
                                                                   LBD08118-01-1