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S06699 Summary:

BILL NO	S06699
SAME AS	SAME AS A08480
SPONSOR	GALLIVAN
COSPNSR	AVELLA, SEPULVEDA
MLTSPNSR
Amd §505, Cor L
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates.

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S06699 Actions:

BILL NO	S06699
06/13/2017	REFERRED TO RULES
01/03/2018	REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
04/25/2018	1ST REPORT CAL.855
04/30/2018	2ND REPORT CAL.
05/01/2018	ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/20/2018	COMMITTED TO RULES

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S06699 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6699
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 13, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD13068-02-7

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