Provides that the state shall pay to the city or county operating a facility, including whenever a person confined during proceedings pursuant to article ten of the mental hygiene law has been placed in any county jail or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, the actual per day per capita cost as certified to the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision by the appropriate local official for the care of such person as approved by the director of the budget.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4377
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to certain reimbursement
rates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. Reimbursement rate. Whenever a presumptively released, paroled or
4 conditionally released person or a person under post-release supervision
5 or a prisoner received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee
6 supervision has, pursuant to this subdivision, or whenever a person
7 confined during proceedings pursuant to article ten of the mental
8 hygiene law been placed in any county jail or penitentiary, or a city
9 prison operated by a city having a population of one million or more
10 inhabitants, for any period that such person is not detained pursuant to
11 commitment based on an indictment, an information, a simplified informa-
12 tion, a prosecutor's information, a misdemeanor complaint or a felony
13 complaint, an arrest warrant or a bench warrant, or any order by a court
14 of competent jurisdiction, the state shall pay to the city or county
15 operating such facility the actual per day per capita cost as certified
16 to the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision
17 services by the appropriate local official for the care of such person
18 as approved by the director of the budget.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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