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Home/Bills/S 61New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 61: 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.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 10, 2026

What S 61 does, verified January 10, 2026

The bill aims to provide reimbursement to cities and counties for the cost of housing individuals who are not detained due to an indictment or other court-related issues. These individuals include those who are presumptively released, paroled, or conditionally released, as well as those under post-release supervision or prisoners receiving out-of-state parole supervision. The state will pay the actual per-day-per-capita cost of caring for these individuals, as certified by the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision services and approved by the director of the budget. This reimbursement will be made to the city or county operating the facility where the individual is being held.

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Last action: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Jan. 08, 2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 321 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 61 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (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: 1 Section 1. Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. Reimbursement rate. Whenever a presumptively released, paroled or 4 conditionally released person or a person under post-release supervision 5 or a prisoner received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee 6 supervision has, pursuant to this subdivision, or whenever a person 7 confined during proceedings pursuant to article ten of the mental 8 hygiene law been placed in any county jail or penitentiary, or a city 9 prison operated by a city having a population of one million or more 10 inhabitants, for any period that such person is not detained pursuant to 11 commitment based on an indictment, an information, a simplified informa- 12 tion, a prosecutor's information, a misdemeanor complaint or a felony 13 complaint, an arrest warrant or a bench warrant, or any order by a court 14 of competent jurisdiction, the state shall pay to the city or county 15 operating such facility the actual per day per capita cost as certified 16 to the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision 17 services by the appropriate local official for the care of such person 18 as approved by the director of the budget. 19 § 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 
Text of S 61 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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