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Assembly Bill A9703

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility

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2023-A9703 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7719
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §505, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3565, S1856

2023-A9703 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility, but corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.

2023-A9703 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9703
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- 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 medications to incarcerated indi-
   viduals on the premises of a local correctional facility
 
   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 6 to read as follows:
   6. COUNTY CORRECTION OFFICERS IN LOCAL CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  SHALL
 NOT  DISPENSE  OR  ADMINISTER MEDICATIONS TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS ON
 THE PREMISES OF A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 SIXTEEN OF SECTION TWO OF  THIS  CHAPTER.  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT
 IMPEDE  CORRECTION  OFFICERS  OR  STAFF FROM DISPENSING OR ADMINISTERING
 MEDICATIONS USED FOR THE  EMERGENCY  TREATMENT  OF  KNOWN  OR  SUSPECTED
 OPIOID OVERDOSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13138-01-3

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