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Assembly Bill A4087

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to reimbursing localities for the cost of maintaining custody of state-ready prisoners

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2009-A4087 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1423
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง601-c, Cor L

2009-A4087 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the reimbursement rate for providing care and custody of state-ready prisoners from the present $40.00 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-A4087 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 1423                                                  A. 4087

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            January 30, 2009
                               ___________

IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. VOLKER -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Crime
  Victims, Crime and Correction

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, BROOK-KRASNY -- Multi-Spon-
  sored  by  -- M. of A. BRENNAN, COOK, MAGEE, PAULIN, PHEFFER, TOWNS --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  reimbursing  locali-
  ties for the cost of maintaining custody of state-ready prisoners

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 601-c of the  correction  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  262  of  the  laws  of 1987, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
the expense of maintaining a person convicted of a felony whose sentence
has  been  pronounced  and  which  requires  that he be committed to the
custody of the commissioner, and who has not been accepted  for  custody
by  the commissioner within five days of receipt of written notification
by the department  from  the  appropriate  local  official  that  he  is
prepared  to  transport  such  person  to the facility designated by the
department, provided that there has been compliance with subdivision (a)
of section six hundred one of this article, shall be paid by  the  state
at  the  actual per day per capita cost, as certified by the appropriate
local official[, or thirty dollars per day per capita and, effective  on
and  after  the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, forty
dollars per day per capita, whichever is less] AND APPROVED BY THE STATE
DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET, beginning with the first day of receipt of writ-
ten notification by the department.  Nothing contained herein  shall  be
construed  to  affect,  impair,  modify,  restrict, define or expand any
other provision of law with regard  to  any  obligation  to  deliver  or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04422-01-9

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