NY State Senate Bill 2025-S8448

Senate Bill S8448

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the reimbursement amount authorized to be paid to localities maintaining incarcerated individuals convicted of felonies

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

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Jun 25, 2025	referred to rules

2025-S8448 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §601-c, Cor L

2025-S8448 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the reimbursement amount authorized to be paid to localities maintaining incarcerated individuals convicted of felonies to $300 per day per capita for the first 10 days, and $600 per day per capita for each day thereafter, or the actual per day per capita cost, whichever is more.

2025-S8448 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8448

SPONSOR: WALCZYK
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill would require New York State to reimburse counties at a higher
rate for "state-ready" incarcerated individuals that are held in local
jails.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends section 601-c of the correction law to require New
York State to reimburse counties up to either $300 per day for each
"state-ready" incarcerated individuals it houses or the actual cost of
housing them, whichever is more, for the first ten days local jails
holds them. After ten days, that reimbursement increases to $600 per day

or the actual cost of housing them, whichever is more.

Section 2: Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

"State-ready" incarcerated individuals are inmates who are required to
go to state prisons, but have not yet been picked up by the state.

Section 601-c of the correction law allows counties to be reimbursed up
to $100 per day for holding these inmates. However, cost increases and a
delay in pickups means that counties are hemorrhaging money on this
front. In St. Lawrence County, this has resulted in a loss of over
$300,000. This bill would increase that $100 reimbursement, which has
been stagnant since 1995, to $300 per day per inmate for the first ten
days they are held or the actual cost of holding them, whichever is
more. After ten days, that number increases to $600 per day per inmate
or the actual cost, whichever is more. This legislation will give much
needed financial relief to counties holding these individuals, while at
the same time incentivizing the state to quickly move these people to
state correctional facilities.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Increased cost to New York State for reimbursement, which currently
falls on counties. Therefore, New York State could see a cost increase
in excess of $200 million per year. On a similar note, counties would
see a cost savings of over $200 million per year.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2025-S8448 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8448
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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

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