New York A 10699: Relates to allowing for the testing of certain infectious diseases by pharmacists

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A10699 Summary:

BILL NOA10699 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09467

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SPONSORForrest

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COSPNSRTapia, Gallagher, Hevesi, Valdez, Simon, Gonzalez-Rojas, Rosenthal

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3502, Pub Health L; add §138-c, Cor L

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Establishes procedures to be followed when the body scan of an incarcerated individual, employee or visitor to a correctional facility displays alleged abnormalities; requires staff discipline for staff who have wrongfully denied visitation to a visitor or entry to an employee based on a body scan; requires the collection and reporting of certain information relating to visitation and entry denials based on body scans; requires such law to be posted in visitor processing areas of correctional facilities.

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BILL NOA10699 

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03/20/2026referred to health

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Go to topA10699 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10699

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 20, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the correction law, in
 relation to body scanner procedures for employees and visitors at
 state and local correctional facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 3502 of the public health law, as
 2 added by chapter 313 of the laws of 2018, subparagraph (i) of paragraph
 3 (a) as amended by chapter 486 of the laws of 2022, and subparagraphs
 4 (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a), paragraph (b), subparagraphs (i), (ii),
 5 (iii), and (v) of paragraph (c), paragraph (e), and the opening para-
 6 graph and subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (f) as amended by
 7 section 1 of part LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to
 8 read as follows:
 9 6. (a) For the purpose of this subdivision:
 10 (i) "Body imaging scanning equipment", "equipment", and "body scan-
 11 ners" shall be equivalent and shall mean equipment that utilizes a low
 12 dose of ionizing radiation to produce an anatomical image capable of
 13 detecting objects placed on, attached to or secreted within a person's
 14 body.
 15 (ii) "Local correctional facility" shall have the same meaning as
 16 found in subdivision sixteen of section two of the correction law, and
 17 shall be applicable in this section to facilities that utilize body
 18 scanners.
 19 (iii) "State correctional facility" shall mean a "correctional facili-
 20 ty" as defined in subdivision four of section two of the correction law.
 21 (iv) "Employee" shall mean any person who works in any capacity in a
 22 state correctional facility regardless of the identity of their employ-
 23 er, or any person who has a work-related reason to enter a local correc-
 24 tional facility.
 25 (v)"Alternative search method" shall mean any procedure used to search
 26 an individual that has not already been utilized on such individual with
 27 regard to the individual's intended entry into a local correctional

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13689-05-6

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 1 facility or state correctional facility on any particular occasion.
 2 "Alternative search method" shall include, but not be limited to, body
 3 scanners, metal detectors, pat frisks, and canine searches.
 4 (b) (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other
 5 provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, licensed practi-
 6 tioners, persons licensed under this article and unlicensed personnel
 7 employed at a local correctional facility may, in a manner permitted by
 8 the regulations promulgated pursuant to this subdivision, utilize body
 9 imaging scanning equipment that applies ionizing radiation to humans for
 10 purposes of screening all individuals who seek to enter such facility
 11 and all incarcerated individuals detained in or committed to such facil-
 12 ity, in [connection with] furtherance of the implementation of such
 13 facility's security program.
 14 (ii) Notwithstanding the provisions of this se