Bill Text: NY A00493 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 493 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to providing only plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities for use in cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining facility located within.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A00493 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00493-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           493

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JONES, BYRNE, McDONOUGH, SANTABARBARA, J. RIVERA,
          MIKULIN,  RICHARDSON  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, COOK,
          FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing plastic  or
          composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  626
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  626. Eating utensils. All eating utensils provided by state correc-
     4  tional facilities to individuals housed in such facilities  for  use  in
     5  cafeterias,  mess  halls,  canteens,  commissaries,  or any other dining
     6  facility located within, shall be made solely from  plastic  or  another
     7  composite material.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04421-01-1