Senate Bill S1202

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1202 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1591
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §625, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8206, A10546
2021-2022: S1931, A493
2023-2024: S4483, A1770

2019-S1202 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing only plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities for use in cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining facility located within.

2019-S1202 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1202 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1202
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 providing plastic or
   composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 625
 to read as follows:
   § 625. EATING UTENSILS. ALL EATING UTENSILS PROVIDED BY STATE  CORREC-
 TIONAL  FACILITIES  TO  INDIVIDUALS HOUSED IN SUCH FACILITIES FOR USE IN
 CAFETERIAS, MESS HALLS, CANTEENS,  COMMISSARIES,  OR  ANY  OTHER  DINING
 FACILITY  LOCATED  WITHIN,  SHALL BE MADE SOLELY FROM PLASTIC OR ANOTHER
 COMPOSITE MATERIAL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03242-01-9



              

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