Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to incarcerated individuals unless they are otherwise authorized to do so.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3326--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county
correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or
needles in jails to incarcerated individuals
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 incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local
6 correctional facility as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two
7 of this chapter, unless they are otherwise authorized to do so. This
8 provision shall not apply to dispensing of pill-based medication to
9 incarcerated individuals.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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