S.B. 152 Enrolled

MEDICAL EXPENSES OF COUNTY INMATES
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Michael G. Waddoups
This act modifies provisions relating to Counties to include inmate medical expenses
provided at the request of a county sheriff as county expenses for certain counties. The act
specifies the basis for costs of medical services in the absence of a contract between the
county and a medical service facility. The act also makes technical changes.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
17-50-319, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 133, Laws of Utah 2000
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 17-50-319 is amended to read:
17-50-319. County charges enumerated.
(1) County charges are:
[(1)] (a) those incurred against the county by any law;
[(2)] (b) the necessary expenses of the county attorney or district attorney incurred in
criminal cases arising in the county, and all other expenses necessarily incurred by the county or
district attorney in the prosecution of criminal cases, except jury and witness fees;
[(3)] (c) the expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or
convicted of a criminal offense and committed to the county jail;
[(4)] (d) for a county not within the state district court administrative system, the sum
required by law to be paid jurors in civil cases;
[(5)] (e) all charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice court judge for
services in the trial and examination of persons charged with a criminal offense not otherwise
provided for by law;
[(6)] (f) the contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county;
[(7)] (g) every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purposes under the
direction of the county legislative body or declared a county charge;

[(8)] (h) the fees of constables for services rendered in criminal cases;
[(9)] (i) the necessary expenses of the sheriff and deputies incurred in civil and criminal
cases arising in the county, and all other expenses necessarily incurred by the sheriff and deputies
performing the duties imposed upon them by law; [and]
[(10)] (j) the sums required by law to be paid by the county to jurors and witnesses serving
at inquests and in criminal cases in justice courts[.]; and
(k) for a county of the first or second class and subject to Subsection (2), expenses incurred
by a health care facility in providing medical services at the request of a county sheriff for existing
conditions of:
(i) persons booked into a county jail on a charge of a criminal offense; or
(ii) persons convicted of a criminal offense and committed to a county jail.
(2) (a) Expenses described in Subsection (1)(k) are a county charge only to the extent that
they exceed any private insurance in effect that covers those expenses.
(b) If there is no contract between a county jail and a health care facility that establishes a
fee schedule for medical services rendered, expenses under Subsection (1)(k) shall be commensurate
with the current noncapitated state Medicaid rates.
(c) Subsection (1)(k) does not apply to expenses of a person held at the jail at the request of
an agency of the United States.

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