Senate Bill S286

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting tension pneumothorax decompression needles from criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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-S286 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220.45, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S1220

2019-S286 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exempting possession of tension pneumothorax decompression needles by paramedics and EMTs from criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.

2019-S286 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S286 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    286
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to exempting tension  pneumo-
   thorax  decompression needles from criminal possession of a hypodermic
   instrument

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 220.45 of the penal law, as amended by section 3 of
 part I of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
 § 220.45 Criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
   A  person  is  guilty of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument
 when he or she knowingly and unlawfully possesses or sells a  hypodermic
 syringe  or  hypodermic  needle.  It  shall  not  be a violation of this
 section when a person obtains and  possesses  a  hypodermic  syringe  or
 hypodermic needle pursuant to section thirty-three hundred eighty-one of
 the  public  health law, which includes the state's syringe exchange and
 pharmacy and medical provider-based expanded syringe access programs, OR
 WHEN A PARAMEDIC, EMERGENCY-MEDICAL TECHNICIAN OR OTHER  PERSON  TRAINED
 IN  TACTICAL FIRST AID IS IN POSSESSION OF A TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX DECOM-
 PRESSION NEEDLE IN THE COURSE OF THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES.
   Criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument is a class  A  misdemea-
 nor.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02448-01-9

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