Senate Bill S5645

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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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-S5645 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4320
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §505, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6699, A8480
2021-2022: S3326, A8918

2019-S5645 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S5645 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5645 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5645
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 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.
                                                            LBD08569-01-9

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