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Senate Study Bill 96

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 356.15, Code 1997, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    356.15  EXPENSES.
  1  4    All charges and expenses for the safekeeping and
  1  5 maintenance of prisoners shall be allowed by the board of
  1  6 supervisors, except those as follows:
  1  7    1.  Prisoners committed or detained by the authority of the
  1  8 courts of the United States, in which cases the United States
  1  9 must pay such expenses to the county, and those.
  1 10    2.  Prisoners committed for violation of a city ordinance,
  1 11 in which case the city shall pay expenses to the county.
  1 12    3.  Prisoners for whom a judgment of conviction for a
  1 13 public offense which is a class "B", class "C", or class "D"
  1 14 felony or an aggravated misdemeanor has been entered, but for
  1 15 whom a sentence of confinement has not been imposed under
  1 16 section 901.7, because a presentence investigation has been
  1 17 ordered under section 901.2, in which case the state shall pay
  1 18 expenses to the county.
  1 19    Sec. 2.  Section 901.7, Code 1997, is amended to read as
  1 20 follows:
  1 21    901.7  COMMITMENT TO CUSTODY.
  1 22    In imposing a sentence of confinement for more than one
  1 23 year, the court shall commit the defendant to the custody of
  1 24 the director of the Iowa department of corrections.  Upon
  1 25 entry of judgment and sentence, the clerk of the district
  1 26 court immediately shall notify the director of the commitment.
  1 27 The court shall make an order as appropriate for the temporary
  1 28 custody of the defendant pending the defendant's transfer to
  1 29 the custody of the director.  The court shall order the county
  1 30 where a person was convicted state to pay reimburse the county
  1 31 where the person was convicted for the cost of temporarily
  1 32 confining the person after entry of judgment and sentence and
  1 33 of transporting the person to the state institution where the
  1 34 person is to be confined in execution of the judgment.  The
  1 35 order shall require that a person transported to a state
  2  1 institution pursuant to this section shall be accompanied by a
  2  2 person of the same sex.  
  2  3                           EXPLANATION
  2  4    This bill provides for state reimbursement to the county
  2  5 for charges and expenses for the safekeeping and maintenance
  2  6 of prisoners who are convicted of, but who have not been sent
  2  7 to prison for, class "B", "C", and "D" felony offenses or
  2  8 aggravated misdemeanors because the court has ordered a
  2  9 presentence investigation.  The bill also provides for
  2 10 reimbursement to the county of conviction for the costs of
  2 11 temporarily confining persons after entry of judgment and
  2 12 sentence and transporting the persons for whom a sentence of
  2 13 confinement of more than one year has been imposed.  
  2 14 LSB 1686SC 77
  2 15 lh/jw/5
     
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