S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8448
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to increasing the
reimbursement amount authorized to be paid to localities maintaining
incarcerated individuals convicted of felonies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 601-c of the correction law, as added by section 2
of part M of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
§ 601-c. Felony [prisoners] INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS; reimbursement
for costs. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case where
a person has been convicted of a felony and a sentence has been
pronounced which requires that [he or she] SUCH PERSON be committed to
the custody of the commissioner, if such person has not been accepted
for custody by the commissioner within ten business days of receipt of a
written notification by the department from the appropriate local offi-
cial that [he or she] THE COMMISSIONER 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, and provided further that such person is not in need of
immediate medical care requiring the availability of a hospital or
infirmary bed, then the expense of maintaining such person shall be paid
by the state at the rate of [one] THREE hundred dollars per day per
capita FOR THE FIRST TEN DAYS AND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY PER CAPITA
FOR EACH DAY THEREAFTER, or the actual per day per capita cost as certi-
fied by the appropriate local official, whichever is [less] MORE, begin-
ning with the first day of receipt of written notification by the
department.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13413-02-5