Housing of municipal prisoners in county jails; revise methods that counties and municipalities use to calculate costs for payments of.

HB 1691 removes a requirement that counties charge municipalities a fixed rate for housing municipal prisoners in county jails, which previously tied payments to the state rate for housing state inmates. Instead, it allows counties and municipalities to directly negotiate the costs for housing and caring for municipal prisoners held in county facilities. This change affects counties operating jails and municipalities that send prisoners to those jails. The bill does not alter the $15 per day per prisoner cap for feeding costs mentioned in the existing law but shifts payment negotiations from a mandated formula to flexible agreements between the two parties. The bill died in committee on February 3, 2026, and was never enacted.