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NY A09472

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/9/2016

Primary Sponsor

Pamela Harris

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Origin

Assembly

2015-2016 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits establishment, approval, maintenance, or continuation of methadone treatment centers within 500 feet of public or private secondary schools, elementary schools, day-care centers, parks, churches, synagogues, or other places of worship, unless the center is located within a hospital

  • Requires distance measurements to be taken 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 general public, or patients being treated, with special provisions for facilities set back from public thoroughfares

  • Excludes emergency exits, fire exits, maintenance-only doors, and doors leading solely to non-public building areas from the entrance definition

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

referred to mental health

3/9/2016

Committee Referrals

Mental Health3/9/2016

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