Bill Text: NY A04342 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the reimbursement rate for housing coram nobis inmates from $20.00 per day per capita to the actual cost as certified by the appropriate local official and approved by the state director of the budget.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A04342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04342-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4342
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN,  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    §  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    § 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.
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