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
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5359
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2025
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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.
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