Bill Text: VA SB41 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Jails, local; compensation for cost of incarceration as calculated in report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-31 - Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N) [SB41 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-SB41-Prefiled.html
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 annual Jail Cost Report
prepared 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.
