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Senate amends and passes bill revising state reimbursement to county correctional facilities
Summary
Senators adopted an amendment to House Bill 282 that sets the state reimbursement rate for housing certain state probationary and parole inmates and passed the measure; debate emphasized bed shortages, reimbursement vs. contracting rates, and long-term corrections funding trends.
The Senate considered and amended House Bill 282, which revises state payment and reimbursement to county correctional facilities, and passed the bill after adopting an agreed amendment.
Senator Knudson introduced Amendment 1, which reduces the percentage of the final state daily incarceration rate paid to a county as reimbursement for housing state probationary or…
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