| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2025 |
referred to codes |
Senate Bill S2207
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) 62nd Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 51st Senate District
(R) 39th Senate District
2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2207
SPONSOR: ORTT
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to payment of
certain costs associated with the psychiatric examination of defendants
to determine mental fitness
PURPOSE:
This legislation would require the State as opposed to the County to pay
for the cost for a psychiatric evaluation under Section 730.2 of the
CPL.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Subdivision 7 of section 730.20 of the CPL is amended to remove the
language county in which the defendant is being tried to be replaced by
the state.
Section 2 is the effective date.
2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2207
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 15, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to payment of
certain costs associated with the psychiatric examination of defend-
ants to determine mental fitness
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 730.20 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 692 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read
as follows:
7. A psychiatric examiner is entitled to [his] reasonable traveling
expenses, a fee of fifty dollars for each examination of a defendant and
a fee of fifty dollars for each appearance at a court hearing or trial
but not exceeding two hundred dollars in fees for examination and testi-
mony in any one case; except that if such psychiatric examiner be an
employee of the state of New York [he] THEY shall be entitled only to
reasonable traveling expenses, unless such psychiatric examiner makes
the examination or appears at a court hearing or trial outside [his]
THEIR hours of state employment in a county in which the director of
community mental health services certifies to the fiscal officer thereof
that there is a shortage of qualified psychiatrists available to conduct
examinations under the criminal procedure law in such county, in which
event [he] SUCH EXAMINER shall be entitled to the foregoing fees and
reasonable traveling expenses. Such fees and traveling expenses and the
costs of sending a defendant to another place of detention or to a
hospital for examination, of [his] THEIR maintenance therein and of
returning [him] SUCH DEFENDANT shall, when approved by the court, be a
charge of the [county in which the defendant is being tried] STATE.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
expenses occurring on and after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04359-01-5
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