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Assembly Bill A11671

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the drug and special watch due process act

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2025-A11671 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §137-a, Cor L

2025-A11671 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes standards and procedures governing drug and special watches and temporary isolation based upon suspected ingestion or internal concealment of contraband.

2025-A11671 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11671
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Tapia) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  enacting  the  "drug
   and special watch due process act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "drug and special watch due process act".
   §  2.  The  correction law is amended by adding a new section 137-a to
 read as follows:
   § 137-A. DRUG AND SPECIAL WATCHES. 1. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "DRUG OR SPECIAL WATCH" MEANS ANY PLACEMENT,  DETENTION,  CONFINE-
 MENT,  OBSERVATION, TEMPORARY ISOLATION, DRY CELL PLACEMENT, OR SUBSTAN-
 TIALLY SIMILAR RESTRICTION IMPOSED UPON AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL BASED
 UPON A BELIEF THAT SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL HAS INGESTED  CONTRABAND
 OR  IS  CARRYING  OR  CONCEALING  CONTRABAND WITHIN THE GASTROINTESTINAL
 TRACT OR RECTUM, REGARDLESS OF THE TERMINOLOGY USED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO
 DESCRIBE SUCH PLACEMENT.
   (B) "NON-INVASIVE INTERNAL CONTRABAND DETECTION  TECHNOLOGY"  MEANS  A
 BODY  SCANNER,  RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING DEVICE, OR OTHER NON-INVASIVE TECH-
 NOLOGY, APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH FOR USE PURSUANT TO  THIS
 SECTION,  THAT IS CAPABLE OF DETECTING, IMAGING, OR OTHERWISE INDICATING
 THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A FOREIGN OBJECT  OR  CONTRABAND  WITHIN  THE
 GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OR RECTUM.
   (C) "SCAN" MEANS AN EXAMINATION CONDUCTED THROUGH THE USE OF NON-INVA-
 SIVE INTERNAL CONTRABAND DETECTION TECHNOLOGY.
   (D)  "NEGATIVE SCAN" MEANS THE RESULT OF A SCAN THAT DOES NOT INDICATE
 THE PRESENCE OF CONTRABAND OR A FOREIGN OBJECT WITHIN THE GASTROINTESTI-
 NAL TRACT OR RECTUM.
   (E) "POSITIVE SCAN" MEANS THE RESULT OF  A  SCAN  THAT  INDICATES  THE
 PRESENCE  OF  CONTRABAND OR A FOREIGN OBJECT WITHIN THE GASTROINTESTINAL
 TRACT OR RECTUM.
   (F) "INCONCLUSIVE SCAN" MEANS THE RESULT OF  A  SCAN  FROM  WHICH  THE
 PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF CONTRABAND OR A FOREIGN OBJECT CANNOT RELIABLY BE
 DETERMINED.
 
              

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