Bill Text: NY A08703 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more inmates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A08703 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08703-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8703

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  use  of  canines
          for contraband screening at certain correctional facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  The commissioner shall establish a contraband screening plan which
     4  shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  use  of  a  leashed  and
     5  controlled  canine  trained to detect illegal drugs at each correctional
     6  facility housing one hundred or more inmates.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13858-01-9