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Assembly Bill A8703

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more inmates

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2019-A8703 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7640
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4712, S1685
2023-2024: A3038, S4286
2025-2026: A1105, S5009

2019-A8703 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more inmates.

2019-A8703 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8703
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  use  of  canines
   for contraband screening at certain correctional facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A CONTRABAND SCREENING PLAN WHICH
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE  USE  OF  A  LEASHED  AND
 CONTROLLED  CANINE  TRAINED TO DETECT ILLEGAL DRUGS AT EACH CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITY HOUSING ONE HUNDRED OR MORE INMATES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13858-01-9

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