Senate Bill S6993

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to payment by the state of certain costs associated with the psychiatric examination of defendants to determine mental fitness

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S6993 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10454
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §730.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1154, A7694
2019-2020: S677, A3157
2021-2022: S3204, A5205
2023-2024: S780, A4290

2015-S6993 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for payment by the state of certain travelling costs and fees associated with the psychiatric examination of defendants to determine mental fitness.

2015-S6993 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6993 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6993

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 14, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  payment  of
  certain  costs  associated with the psychiatric examination of defend-
  ants to determine mental fitness

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 7 of section 730.20 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 692 of the laws of 1972, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  7.    A  psychiatric  examiner is entitled to his reasonable traveling
expenses, a fee of fifty dollars for each examination of a defendant and
a fee of fifty dollars for each appearance at a court hearing  or  trial
but not exceeding two hundred dollars in fees for examination and testi-
mony  in  any  one  case; except that if such psychiatric examiner be an
employee of the state of New York he shall be entitled only  to  reason-
able  traveling  expenses,  unless  such  psychiatric examiner makes the
examination or appears at a court hearing or trial outside his hours  of
state  employment  in a county in which the director of community mental
health services certifies to the fiscal officer thereof that there is  a
shortage  of  qualified  psychiatrists available to conduct examinations
under the criminal procedure law in such county, in which event he shall
be entitled to the foregoing fees  and  reasonable  traveling  expenses.
Such fees and traveling expenses and the costs of sending a defendant to
another  place  of  detention  or  to a hospital for examination, of his
maintenance therein and of returning him shall,  when  approved  by  the
court, be a charge of the [county in which the defendant is being tried]
STATE.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
expenses occurring on and after such date.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14646-01-6

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