GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1038

Short Title:  Increase Local Confinement Rate.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Wicker.
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Referred to:  Government.
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April 6, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE STANDARD RATE PAID BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO COUNTIES FOR KEEPING CERTAIN CONVICTED INMATES IN JAIL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 148-32.1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Department of Correction shall pay each local confinement facility twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day, per inmate, for the cost of providing food, clothing, personal items, supervision and necessary ordinary medical services to those inmates committed to the custody of the local confinement facility to serve sentences of 30 days or more.  This reimbursement shall not include any period of detention prior to actual commitment by the sentencing court.  The Department shall also pay to the local confinement facility extraordinary medical expenses incurred for the inmates, defined as follows:
(1)	Medical expenses incurred as a result of providing health care to an inmate as an inpatient (hospitalized);
(2)	Other medical expenses when the total cost exceeds thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per occurrence or illness as a result of providing health care to an inmate as an outpatient (nonhospitalized); and
(3)	Cost of replacement of eyeglasses and dental prosthetic devices if those eyeglasses or devices are broken while the inmate is incarcerated, provided the inmate was using the eyeglasses or devices at the time of his commitment and then only if prior written consent of the Department is obtained by the local facility."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective August 1, 1989.