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Assembly Bill A7805

Signed By Governor

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to clarifying certain references to the department of corrections and community supervision

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2017-A7805 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5314
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §29.28, Ment Hyg L

2017-A7805 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to clarifying certain references to the department of corrections and community supervision.

2017-A7805 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7805
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER -- (at request of the Office of Mental
   Health) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the  mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  clarifying
   certain  references  to  the  department  of corrections and community
   supervision

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 29.28 of the mental hygiene law,
 as  added  by section 5 of subpart C of part C of chapter 97 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) It shall be the duty of the governing body of any  county  wherein
 such  prosecution  occurs  to cause a sworn statement of all costs to be
 forwarded to the department OF CORRECTIONS  AND  COMMUNITY  SUPERVISION.
 Upon  certification  by [the] SUCH department that such costs as author-
 ized by this [statute] SECTION  have  been  incurred,  the  [department]
 COMMISSIONER  OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION shall forward the
 proper vouchers to the state comptroller.  It shall be the duty  of  the
 comptroller  to  examine  such statement and to correct same by striking
 therefrom any and all items which are not  authorized  pursuant  to  the
 provisions  of  this  section  and  after correcting such statement, the
 comptroller shall draw his OR HER warrant for the  amount  of  any  such
 costs  in  favor of the appropriate county treasurer, which sum shall be
 paid to said county treasurer out of any moneys appropriated therefor.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10134-01-7

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