STATE OF NEW YORK
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the correction law, in
relation to making the cost of incarceration for non-violent felony
offenders available to the public
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new arti-
2 cle 425 to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 425--COST OF INCARCERATION FOR NON-VIOLENT FELONS MADE
4 PUBLIC
5 Section 425.10 Cost of incarceration for non-violent felons made public.
6 § 425.10 Cost of incarceration for non-violent felons made public.
7 1. Upon imposing a sentence of incarceration for a conviction of a
8 non-violent felony offense, the sentencing judge shall make such cost
9 available to the public.
10 2. At the request of the sentencing judge, an estimate of such cost
11 shall be provided by the department of corrections and community super-
12 vision to the sentencing judge prior to the imposition of such sentence.
13 3. For purposes of this section, non-violent felony offense shall mean
14 and include any felony not defined in subdivision one of section 70.02
15 of the penal law.
16 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 601-e to
17 read as follows:
18 § 601-e. Cost of incarceration for non-violent felony offenders. The
19 department shall provide a sentencing court with an estimate of the cost
20 of incarceration for a non-violent felony offender at the request of a
21 sentencing judge.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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