Bill Text: NY A04851 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a contraband screening plan which includes a canine at the entrance of each correctional facility to detect the presence of illegal drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A04851 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04851-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the  correction  law,  in  relation  to  establishing  a
          contraband  screening  plan which includes a canine at the entrance of
          each correctional facility

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. The commissioner shall establish a contraband screening plan  which
     4  shall  include  the  use  of  a leashed and controlled canine trained to
     5  detect illegal drugs at the entrance of each correctional facility.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08496-01-3