Bill Text: NY S07640 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more inmates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S07640 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07640-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7640

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 the use of canines
          for contraband screening at certain correctional facilities

          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 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. The commissioner shall establish a contraband screening plan  which
     4  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  the  use  of  a leashed and
     5  controlled canine trained to detect illegal drugs at  each  correctional
     6  facility housing one hundred or more inmates.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13858-01-9