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A08918 Summary:

BILL NO	A08918
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Weprin
COSPNSR	Gottfried, Taylor
MLTSPNSR
Amd §505, Cor L
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates.

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A08918 Actions:

BILL NO	A08918
01/19/2022	referred to correction

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A08918 Committee Votes:

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A08918 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8918
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 19, 2022
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        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.
                                                                   LBD08118-01-1

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