Bill Text: NY S02847 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to assign at least 1 narcotics investigator to each county in a city having a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to health [S02847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02847-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2847
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
         department of health to assign at least one investigator of the bureau
         of  narcotics  enforcement to each county within a city having a popu-
         lation of one million or more
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 3385 of the public health law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    3    3. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ASSIGN AND EMPLOY NOT LESS THAN  ONE  INVESTI-
    4  GATOR  OF  THE BUREAU OF NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS
    5  OF THIS ARTICLE IN EACH COUNTY WITHIN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF  ONE
    6  MILLION OR MORE.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01478-01-5