S.B. 11

VETOES

Senate Bill No. 11

AN ACT concerning

Charles County Detention Center Local Detention' Centers - Inmate Medical Fees

FOR the purpose of requiring a deduction from certain accounts held by the Sheriff
sheriffs sheriff of Charles County certain counties a county or Baltimore City on
behalf of an inmate in the Charles County Detention Center a local detention
center of an amount set by the County county's or Baltimore City's governing body,
or the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the case of
Baltimore City, for certain visits to a physician, dentist, optometrist, or institutional
medical unit; requiring that the Sheriff sheriff also deduct the amount needed to
pay for the visit treatment and for required medication; prohibiting an inmate from
incurring charges against certain accounts, unless otherwise authorized, until
certain medical charges have boon paid requiring a county's governing body, or the
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the case of Baltimore City, to
set a reasonable fee not to exceed a certain amount; providing for the handling of
certain funds; making a stylistic change; and generally relating to the responsibility
of an inmate in a local detention center in the Charles County Detention Center for
certain medical charges payment of certain fees by inmates in local detention centers for
certain medical visits in certain counties.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 87 - Sheriffs
Section 46

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 87 - Sheriffs

46.

(a)     In this section, "sheriff includes the administrator, director, superintendent,
warden, or other officer in charge of a detention center.

(b)     The sheriff shall provide food and board for all prisoners committed to the
sheriff's charge and [such] food and other articles for the comfort of sick prisoners as the
physician attending the prisoners may deem necessary, the expense of which shall be paid
by the county or Baltimore City.

(c)     Sick, injured, or disabled prisoners including those committed to the
Commissioner of Pretrial Detention and Services shall be responsible for reimbursing the
county or the State, as appropriate for the payment of all medical care, and shall furnish
the sheriff with the following information:

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