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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4483
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
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 627
2 to read as follows:
3 § 627. 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.
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