A 5359: Prohibits any police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional facility from interfering with the provision of medical assistance to an incarcerated individual.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5359 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting interfer- ence with the provision of medical assistance to incarcerated individ- uals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-y 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-y. Interference with the provision of medical assistance to 4 incarcerated individuals. 1. For the purposes of this section: 5 (a) "police officer" means a person designated as such in subdivision 6 thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law. 7 (b) "peace officer" means a person listed in section 2.10 of the crim- 8 inal procedure law. 9 2. No police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional 10 facility, as defined in section two of the correction law, shall inter- 11 fere with the provision of medical assistance to an incarcerated indi- 12 vidual. 13 3. Any police officer, peace officer or employee of a correctional 14 facility who interferes with the provision of medical assistance to an 15 incarcerated individual in violation of this section shall be guilty of 16 a class E felony. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03531-01-5