Bill Text: VA HB1414 | 2013 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Local jails; compensation for cost of incarceration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Left in Appropriations [HB1414 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-HB1414-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1414 Offered January 9, 2013 Prefiled December 18, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact §53.1-20.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation of local jails; starting date of compensation. ---------- Patron-- Crockett-Stark ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

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 cost of incarceration as provided for in the general appropriation act beginning on the sixty-first thirty-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.