Senate Bill S2207

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to payment by the state of certain costs associated with the psychiatric examination of defendants to determine mental fitness

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §730.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6993
2017-2018: S1154
2019-2020: S677
2021-2022: S3204
2023-2024: S780

2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for payment by the state of certain traveling costs and fees associated with the psychiatric examination of defendants to determine mental fitness.

2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2207 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2207
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  payment  of
   certain  costs  associated with the psychiatric examination of defend-
   ants to determine mental fitness

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 7 of section 730.20 of the criminal procedure
 law, as amended by chapter 692 of the laws of 1972, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   7.    A psychiatric examiner is entitled to [his] reasonable traveling
 expenses, a fee of fifty dollars for each examination of a defendant and
 a fee of fifty dollars for each appearance at a court hearing  or  trial
 but not exceeding two hundred dollars in fees for examination and testi-
 mony  in  any  one  case; except that if such psychiatric examiner be an
 employee of the state of New York [he] THEY shall be  entitled  only  to
 reasonable  traveling  expenses,  unless such psychiatric examiner makes
 the examination or appears at a court hearing  or  trial  outside  [his]
 THEIR  hours  of  state  employment in a county in which the director of
 community mental health services certifies to the fiscal officer thereof
 that there is a shortage of qualified psychiatrists available to conduct
 examinations under the criminal procedure law in such county,  in  which
 event  [he]  SUCH  EXAMINER  shall be entitled to the foregoing fees and
 reasonable traveling expenses.  Such fees and traveling expenses and the
 costs of sending a defendant to another  place  of  detention  or  to  a
 hospital  for  examination,  of  [his]  THEIR maintenance therein and of
 returning [him] SUCH DEFENDANT shall, when approved by the court,  be  a
 charge of the [county in which the defendant is being tried] STATE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
 expenses occurring on and after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04359-01-5

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