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Assembly Bill A3488

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to reimbursing localities for the costs of housing felony prisoners

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2009-A3488 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง601-c, Cor L

2009-A3488 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the reimbursement rate for housing felony prisoners 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.

2009-A3488 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3488

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
  GREENE, MAGEE, PAULIN -- 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 housing felony prisoners

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 601-c of the correction law, as
amended by section 1 of part C of chapter 412 of the laws  of  1999,  is
amended to read as follows:
  1.  The expense of maintaining persons convicted of a felony who shall
be sentenced to imprisonment in a local correctional facility  prior  to
April  first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine shall be paid by the state at
the actual per day per capita cost, as certified to the commissioner  by
the  appropriate local official AND AS APPROVED BY THE STATE DIRECTOR OF
THE BUDGET, for the care  of  such  prisoner  [but,  in  any  case,  the
reimbursement rate shall not exceed twenty dollars per day per capita to
the county or city operating such facility].
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall  apply
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.
                                                           LBD04046-01-9

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