SB189: Jails, local; compensation for cost of incarceration of convicted felons.


SENATE BILL NO. 189
Senate Amendments in [ ] – January 24, 2020
A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.
Patrons Prior to Engrossment--Senator Peake; Delegate: Campbell, R.R.
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 53.1-20.1. Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.

If the Director is unable to accommodate in a state correctional facility any convicted felon sentenced to the Department for a felony committed before January 1, 1995, whose sentence totals more than two years or who is convicted of a felony committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who is required to serve a total period of one year or more in a state correctional facility, the Department of Corrections shall compensate local jails for the actual cost of incarceration as provided for calculated in the general appropriation act jail cost report prepared annually by the Compensation Board beginning on the sixty-first day following the date of mailing by certified letter or electronic transmittal by the clerk of the committing court to the Director of the final order.

[ 2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2020 by the General Assembly that becomes law. ]

SENATE BILL NO. 189

Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled December 29, 2019
A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.
Patron-- Peake
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 53.1-20.1. Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration.

If the Director is unable to accommodate in a state correctional facility any convicted felon sentenced to the Department for a felony committed before January 1, 1995, whose sentence totals more than two years or who is convicted of a felony committed on or after January 1, 1995, and who is required to serve a total period of one year or more in a state correctional facility, the Department of Corrections shall compensate local jails for the actual cost of incarceration as provided for calculated in the general appropriation act jail cost report prepared annually by the Compensation Board beginning on the sixty-first day following the date of mailing by certified letter or electronic transmittal by the clerk of the committing court to the Director of the final order.