STATE OF NEW YORK
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7182
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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.
LBD11519-01-5
