Assembly Bill No. 244

Assembly Bill No. 244-Assemblywoman de Braga (By Request)

March 6, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

SUMMARY--Requires state agency that arrests person and places him in county jail to reimburse county for cost of housing person. (BDR 16-888)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to local facilities for detention; requiring a state agency that arrests a person and detains him in a county jail to reimburse the county for the cost of housing the person; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1 Chapter 211 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
A state agency that arrests a person and places him in a county jail for a period of pretrial detention shall reimburse the county in which the jail is located, at a daily rate to be determined by the board of county commissioners for that county, for the cost of housing the person each day the person is detained in the jail.