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NY A03070

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/22/2015

Primary Sponsor

Matthew Titone

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Origin

Assembly

2015-2016 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits establishment, approval, or continued operation of methadone treatment centers within 500 feet of secondary schools, elementary schools, day-care centers, parks, churches, synagogues, or other places of worship unless located within a hospital

  • Measures distance in a straight line from the center of the nearest entrance of the protected facility to the center of the nearest entrance of the methadone treatment center

  • Defines "entrance" as doors regularly used for ingress by students, parents, children, the public, or patients; includes walkways or stairs for facilities set back from public thoroughfares

  • Excludes emergency exits, fire exits, maintenance doors, and doors leading to areas not regularly used by treatment patients from the definition of "entrance"

  • Takes effect seven months after becoming law

Legislative Description

Regulates the establishment and location of a methadone treatment center by prohibiting its establishment or continued operation within five hundred feet of an educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, park, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located within a hospital.

Last Action

enacting clause stricken

3/9/2016

Committee Referrals

Mental Health1/22/2015

Full Bill Text

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