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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1856

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
          Crime and 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