Bill Text: VA SB1040 | 2019 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Jails, local; compensation for cost of incarceration of convicted felons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-02-19 - Left in Appropriations [SB1040 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-SB1040-Engrossed.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§53.1-20.1. Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.
If the Director is unable to accommodate in a state
correctional facility any convicted felon sentenced to the Department for a
felony committed before January 1, 1995, whose sentence totals more than two
years or who is convicted of a felony committed on or after January 1, 1995,
and who is required to serve a total period of one year or more in a state
correctional facility, the Department of Corrections shall compensate local
jails for the actual cost of incarceration as provided for
calculated in the general appropriation act jail cost report
prepared annually by the Compensation Board beginning on the sixty-first
day following the date of mailing by certified letter or electronic transmittal
by the clerk of the committing court to the Director of the final order.
[ 2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2019 by the General Assembly that becomes law. ]