Bill Text: NY S06299 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the administering or directing the administration of a sedative during the arrest of an individual without the consent of such individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-21 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06299 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06299-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6299

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 21, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the invol-
          untary use of sedatives during an arrest

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

     1    Section  1. Clause (viii) of subparagraph 2 of paragraph (d) of subdi-
     2  vision 4 of section 840 of the executive law, as added by section  1  of
     3  part  ZZ  of  chapter  55  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (viii) prohibited uses of force, including but not limited to,  admin-
     6  istering or directing the administration of a sedative during the arrest
     7  of an individual without the consent of such individual.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06618-01-1
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