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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4342
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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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:
1 Section 1. Section 601-b of the correction law, as amended by chapter
2 494 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 601-b. Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Whenever a
4 prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county jail
5 or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population
6 of one million or more inhabitants, to await judicial review of his or
7 her trial, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such
8 facility the actual per day per capita cost, as certified to the commis-
9 sioner by the appropriate local official and as approved by the state
10 director of the budget, for the care of such prisoner [but, in any case,
11 the reimbursement rate shall not exceed twenty dollars per day per capi-
12 ta].
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
14 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply
15 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.
LBD08427-01-9
