S 1856: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1856 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE 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