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2015 SESSION

15103155D
SENATE BILL NO. 1422
Offered January 23, 2015
A BILL to amend and reenact § 53.1-83.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to state appropriations for operating costs of local correctional facilities.
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Patron-- Colgan
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 53.1-83.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 53.1-83.1. How state appropriations for operating costs of local correctional facilities determined.

The Governor's proposed biennial budget bill shall include, for each fiscal year, an appropriation for operating costs for local correctional facilities. The proposed appropriation shall include:

1. An amount for compensating localities for the cost of maintaining prisoners arrested on state warrants in local jails, regional jails and jail farms for a period of incarceration that may not exceed one year unless a longer period of incarceration has been agreed upon in writing by the governing body of the locality or the regional jail authority, at a specified rate per prisoner day;

2. An amount for maintaining convicted state felons in local correctional facilities for a period of incarceration that may not exceed one year unless a longer period of incarceration has been agreed upon in writing by the governing body of the locality or the regional jail authority, at a specified rate per felon day, pursuant to § 53.1-20.1;

3. An amount to pay two-thirds of the salaries of medical and treatment personnel approved by the State Compensation Board; and

4. An amount to be set aside for unanticipated medical emergencies.