Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility

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Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility

Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.

What This Bill Does

• Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.

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Official Summary Text

Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3565

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 28, 2025
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD05102-01-5