Bill Text: NY A03808 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - referred to correction [A03808 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03808-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3808
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
         PHEFFER, PRETLOW --  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    S 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    S  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.
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