Bill Text: NY S03732 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to assign at least 1 narcotics investigator to each county in a city having a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03732 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03732-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3732

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department of health to assign at least one investigator of the bureau
          of  narcotics  enforcement to each county within a city having a popu-
          lation of one million or more

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

     1    Section  1. Section 3385 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. The department shall assign and employ not less than  one  investi-
     4  gator  of  the bureau of narcotics enforcement to enforce the provisions
     5  of this article in each county within a city having a population of  one
     6  million or more.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07517-01-5