S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3499
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 27, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
PHEFFER, PRETLOW -- 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:
Section 1. Section 601-b of the correction law, as amended by chapter
494 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
S 601-b. Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Whenever a
prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county jail
or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population
of one million or more inhabitants, to await judicial review of his
trial, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such facility
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].
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.
LBD04048-01-9