Senate Bill S61

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to certain reimbursement rates

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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-S61 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6936
2019-2020: S1233
2021-2022: S1706
2023-2024: S42

2025-S61 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-S61 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    61
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, HELMING -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Crime
   Victims, Crime and 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:
 
   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 INFORMA-
 TION,  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.
                                                            LBD00401-01-5

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