GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1305

Short Title:  Reimburse Inmate Costs.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Speed, Odom; Parnell, Ballance, Plexico, Sherron, Winner, Soles, Cooper, Dannelly, Smith, Warren, Gulley, Albertson, Kerr, Martin of Pitt, Carpenter, McDaniel, Forrester, Lucas, Perdue, Conder, Rand, Shaw, Simpson, Martin of Guilford, Davis, Kincaid, and Plyler.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 27, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO REIMBURSE LOCAL CONFINEMENT FACILITIES FOR THE EXPENSES OF MAINTAINING INMATES PENDING TRANSFER TO THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 148-29 reads as rewritten:
"§ 148-29.  Transportation of convicts to prison; sheriff's expense affidavit.
The sheriff having in charge any prisoner to be taken to the Central Prison at Raleigh shall send him to the Central Prison within five days after the adjournment of the court at which he was sentenced, if no appeal has been taken.  Beginning on the sixth day after adjournment of the court at which the prisoner was sentenced and continuing through the day the prisoner is received by the Division of Prisons, the Department of Correction shall pay the county a standard sum set by the General Assembly in its appropriation acts for the cost of providing food, clothing, personal items, supervision, and necessary ordinary medical services to the inmate awaiting transfer to the State prison system. The sheriff shall file with the board of commissioners of his county a copy of his affidavit as to necessary guard, together with a copy of his itemized account of expenses, both certified to by him as true copies of those on  file in his office.  "
Sec. 2.  The Secretary of Correction shall use funds available to the Department of Correction for the 1995-96 fiscal year to pay the sum of fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) per day as reimbursement to counties for the cost of housing inmates convicted and awaiting transfer to the State prison system, as provided in G.S. 148-29.
Sec. 3.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Correction for the 1996-97 fiscal year, the sum of fifteen million three hundred thirty thousand dollars ($15,330,000) shall be used to raise the per diem reimbursement to counties from fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) per day to forty-two dollars ($42.00) per day for the cost of housing inmates convicted and awaiting transfer to the State prison system, as provided in G.S. 148-29.
Sec. 4.  Sections 1 and 2 of this act are effective January 1, 1996.  Section 3 of this act becomes effective July 1, 1996.