Assembly Bill A5484

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to reimbursing localities for the costs of maintaining custody of coram nobis inmates

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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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2017-A5484 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §601-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3499
2011-2012: A3808
2013-2014: A4872
2015-2016: A2433
2019-2020: A4342

2017-A5484 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the reimbursement rate for housing coram nobis inmates 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.

2017-A5484 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5484
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN,  O'DONNELL,  AUBRY  -- 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:
   §  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 OR
 HER trial, the state shall pay to the  city  or  county  operating  such
 facility the actual per day per capita cost, AS certified to the commis-
 sioner  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 capi-
 ta].
   § 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.
                                                            LBD05025-01-7

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