Bill Text: NY A10546 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 - Dead) 2018-05-04 - referred to correction [A10546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10546-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10546
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 4, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- 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  625
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  625. 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.
                                                                   LBD15387-02-8