Bill Text: NY A09703 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility, but corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - referred to correction [A09703 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09703-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9703 IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated indi- viduals on the premises of a local correctional facility The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 505 of the correction law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. County correction officers in local correctional facilities shall 4 not dispense or administer medications to incarcerated individuals on 5 the premises of a local correctional facility, as defined in subdivision 6 sixteen of section two of this chapter. This subdivision shall not 7 impede correction officers or staff from dispensing or administering 8 medications used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected 9 opioid overdose. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13138-01-3
