Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or from dispensing nonprescription medication.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1856--B
Cal. No. 619
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, COMRIE, JACKSON, SALAZAR -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favor-
ably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered
to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
in the order of third reading
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.
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