Bill Text: NY A09674 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all visitors, personnel and employees of correctional facilities to be scanned by body imaging scanning equipment before entering such correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-01 - held for consideration in health [A09674 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09674-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9674 IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the correction law and the public health law, in relation to requiring the use of body imaging scanning in 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 138-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 138-b. Body imaging scanners. Every correctional facility shall 4 require all visitors, personnel and employees of such correctional 5 facility to be scanned by body imaging scanning equipment in accordance 6 with subdivision six of section thirty-five hundred two of the public 7 health law before entering such correctional facility. For purposes of 8 this section "body imaging scanning equipment" shall have the same mean- 9 ing as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision six of section thirty- 10 five hundred two of the public health law. 11 § 2. Section 3502 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 12 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 13 6. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other 14 provision of law, rule or regulation, licensed practitioners, persons 15 licensed under this article and unlicensed personnel employed at a 16 correctional facility may utilize body imaging scanning equipment for 17 purposes of screening persons committed to such facility, in connection 18 with the implementation of such facility's security program. 19 (b) Prior to establishing, maintaining or operating in a correctional 20 facility any body imaging scanning equipment, the chief administrative 21 officer of the facility shall ensure that such facility is in compliance 22 with otherwise applicable requirements consistent with this subdivision 23 for the registration, maintenance, operation and inspection of installa- 24 tion with radiation equipment. 25 (c)(i) Prior to operating body imaging scanning equipment, unlicensed 26 personnel employed at correctional facilities shall have successfully 27 completed a training course approved by the department, or in cities EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13517-01-7A. 9674 2 1 with a population of one million or more, approved by the local health 2 department. 3 (ii) No person who operates or who is scanned by the body imaging 4 scanning equipment shall be exposed to more than fifty percent of the 5 annual exposure limits for manmade radiation as specified by applicable 6 regulations. 7 (d) For the purpose of this subdivision, "body imaging scanning equip- 8 ment" or "equipment" means equipment that utilizes a low dose of ioniz- 9 ing radiation to produce an anatomical image capable of detecting 10 objects placed on, attached to or secreted within a person's body. 11 (e) For the purposes of this subdivision, "correctional facility" 12 shall have the same meaning as defined in subdivision four of section 13 two of the correction law. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law.