Provides for state payment of certain traveling costs and fees for psychiatric examinations of defendants.

This bill amends the criminal procedure law to ensure the state covers certain traveling costs and fees related to psychiatric examinations of defendants to determine their mental fitness. Psychiatric examiners are entitled to reasonable traveling expenses, a fee of fifty dollars for each examination, and a fee of fifty dollars for each appearance at a court hearing or trial, up to a maximum of two hundred dollars per case.

Provides for state payment of certain traveling costs and fees for psychiatric examinations of defendants.

This bill amends the criminal procedure law to ensure the state covers certain traveling costs and fees related to psychiatric examinations of defendants to determine their mental fitness. Psychiatric examiners are entitled to reasonable traveling expenses, a fee of fifty dollars for each examination, and a fee of fifty dollars for each appearance at a court hearing or trial, up to a maximum of two hundred dollars per case.