Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3565--C
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, COLTON, STECK, HEVESI, DAVILA,
MEEKS, KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to
said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Correction in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county
correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated indi-
viduals on the premises of a local correctional facility
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 6 to read as follows:
3 6. County correction officers in local correctional facilities shall
4 not dispense or administer medications to incarcerated individuals on
5 the premises of a local correctional facility, as defined in subdivision
6 sixteen of section two of this chapter. This subdivision shall not,
7 however, impede county correction officers or staff from dispensing or
8 administering medications to incarcerated individuals during a medical
9 emergency, or from dispensing nonprescription medication.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05102-07-6
