S1856 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-05
- In committee
- Rules
- Introduced
- 2025-01-14
- Active version
- S1856B
- Same as
- A3565
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Gustavo Rivera State Senator, District 33
Co-sponsors
- Julia Salazar State Senator, District 18
- Leroy Comrie State Senator, District 14
- Robert Jackson State Senator, District 31
Heard in committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A3565 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction, 2026-03-24 First reading
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction, 2025-05-13 First reading
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction, 2025-05-06