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A04320 Summary:
BILL NO | A04320 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S05645 |
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SPONSOR | Weprin |
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COSPNSR | Gottfried, Taylor |
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Amd §505, Cor L | |
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Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates. |
A04320 Actions:
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02/04/2019 | referred to correction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2020 | referred to correction |
A04320 Committee Votes:
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There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topA04320 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4320 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, GOTTFRIED, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles in jails to inmates 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 5 to read as follows: 3 5. County correction officers in local correctional facilities shall 4 not dispense or administer medication using hypodermic syringes or hypo- 5 dermic needles to inmates on the premises of a local correctional facil- 6 ity as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two of this chapter, 7 unless they are otherwise authorized to do so. This provision shall not 8 apply to dispensing of pill-based medication to inmates. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08569-01-9