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Assembly Bill A8918

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles in jail to inmates

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2021-A8918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §505, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8480
2019-2020: A4320

2021-A8918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates.

2021-A8918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8918
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN,  GOTTFRIED,  TAYLOR -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section  505 of the correction law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. COUNTY CORRECTION OFFICERS IN LOCAL CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  SHALL
 NOT DISPENSE OR ADMINISTER MEDICATION USING HYPODERMIC SYRINGES OR HYPO-
 DERMIC NEEDLES TO INMATES ON THE PREMISES OF A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACIL-
 ITY  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION SIXTEEN OF SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER,
 UNLESS THEY ARE OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. THIS PROVISION SHALL  NOT
 APPLY TO DISPENSING OF PILL-BASED MEDICATION TO INMATES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08118-01-1

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