STATE OF NEW YORK
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5645
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
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.
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