Introduced
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To expand the authority of the Attorney General to investigate a prisoner to determine whether he has assets sufficient to warrant seeking reimbursement for the cost of his incarceration; replace the formula establishing the threshold for this (currently, the prisoner has enough to pay 10 percent of that cost for two years) with a simple requirement that the Attorney General determines that seeking reimbursement is “in the public interest;” and revise various other details in provisions of the law authorizing reimbursement. The bill would also create a segregated state fund to receive reimbursement money.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
