What's happening
This bill requires New York State to reimburse local jails and prisons for the actual costs of housing certain released or supervised individuals.
Why it matters
Shifts financial responsibility from local governments to the state for housing certain individuals. by requiring the state to cover the actual daily costs for people held in local jails or city prisons under specific circumstances, the bill could ease budget pressures on counties and cities.
Targets gaps in existing funding for people not detained on new criminal charges. this includes individuals held for parole violations, post-release supervision, or certain mental health proceedings, who may otherwise create unfunded costs for local facilities.
Mandates reimbursement based on certified, actual costs. ensures localities are compensated for the real, not estimated, expenses of detention, potentially leading to more accurate budgeting and resource allocation at the county and city level.
May impact state and local dynamics around incarceration and supervision. by changing who pays for confinement in these cases, the bill could influence policy decisions about the use of local versus state facilities and broader criminal justice practices.
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State Pays Jail Costs
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4377
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
2-a. Reimbursement rate. Whenever a presumptively released, paroled or conditionally released person or a person under post-release supervision or a prisoner received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee supervision has, pursuant to this subdivision, or whenever a person confined during proceedings pursuant to article ten of the mental hygiene law 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, for any period that such person is not detained pursuant to commitment based on an indictment, an information, a simplified information, a prosecutor's information, a misdemeanor complaint or a felony complaint, an arrest warrant or a bench warrant, or any order by a court of competent jurisdiction, the state shall pay to the city or county operating such facility the actual per day per capita cost as certified to the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision services by the appropriate local official for the care of such person as approved by the director of the budget.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02950-01-9
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