08 LC 35
0758S
The
Senate State Institutions and Property Committee offered the following
substitute to SB 360:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to conditions of detention, so as to increase the minimum
reimbursement rate paid to counties for housing state inmates; to provide for
related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and
for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
3 of Chapter 5 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to conditions of detention, is amended by revising subsection (c) of Code
Section 42-5-51, relating to jurisdiction over certain misdemeanor offenders,
designation of place of confinement of inmates, and reimbursement of counties
for housing state inmates, as follows:
"(c)
After proper documentation is received from the clerk of the court, the
department shall have 15 days to transfer an inmate under sentence to the place
of confinement. If the inmate is not transferred within the 15 days, the
department will reimburse the county, in a sum not less than
$7.50
$30.00
per day per inmate and in such
an
additional
amount as may be appropriated for this purpose by the General Assembly, for the
cost of the incarceration, commencing 15 days after proper documentation is
received by the department from the clerk of the court. The reimbursement
provisions of this Code section shall only apply to payment for the
incarceration of felony inmates available for transfer to the department, except
inmates under death sentence awaiting transfer after their initial trial, and
shall not apply to inmates who were incarcerated under the custody of the
commissioner at the time they were returned to the county jail for trial on
additional charges or returned to the county jail for any other purposes,
including for the purpose of a new trial."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2009.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.