S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2433 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 16, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to reimbursing locali- ties for the costs of maintaining custody of coram nobis inmates THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 601-b of the correction law, as amended by chapter 2 494 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 601-b. Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Whenever a 4 prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county jail 5 or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population 6 of one million or more inhabitants, to await judicial review of his OR 7 HER trial, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such 8 facility the actual per day per capita cost, AS certified to the commis- 9 sioner by the appropriate local official AND AS APPROVED BY THE STATE 10 DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET, for the care of such prisoner [but, in any case, 11 the reimbursement rate shall not exceed twenty dollars per day per capi- 12 ta]. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 14 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply 15 to costs incurred by cities and counties on and after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04701-01-5