An Act To Stabilize State Funding for County Corrections
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 1654
Committee Amendment CA_A_H994 (House)
Amends: 5 MRSA §12004-G, 34-A MRSA §1210-D, 34-A MRSA §1210-E, 34-A MRSA §1210-F, 30-A MRSA §701, 34-A MRSA §1208-B, 17-A MRSA §1757, 30-A MRSA §1557-B, 34-A MRSA §1402, 34-A MRSA §3063-C

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State Funding for County Corrections" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'PART A 
Sec. A-1. 5 MRSA §12004-G, sub-§6-D is enacted to read: 
6-D. 
Corrections 
County Corrections Professional 
Standards Council 
Expenses Only 
34-AMRSA 
§1210-F 
Sec. A-2. 34-A MRSA §1210-D, as amended by PL 2015, c. 436, §§11 and 12, is 
repealed. 
Sec. A-3. 34-A MRSA §1210-E is enacted to read: 
§1210-E. County Jail Operations Fund 
1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the 
following terms have the following meanings. 
A. "Community corrections" means the delivery of correctional services for adults in 
the least restrictive manner that ensures the public safety by the county or for the county 
under contract with a public or private entity. "Community corrections" includes, but 
is not limited to, preventive or diversionary correctional programs, pretrial release or 
conditional release programs, alternative sentencing or housing programs, electronic 
monitoring, residential treatment and halfway house programs, community 
correctional centers, temporary release programs from a facility for the detention or 
confinement of persons convicted of crimes and programs and services as required by 
section 1208-B, subsection 4, paragraph D. 
B. 
"County Corrections Professional Standards Council" or "council" means the 
council established pursuant to Title 5, section 12004-G, subsection 6-D. 
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C. "Fund" means the County Jail Operations Fund established pursuant to subsection 
2. 
D. "Jail" means a county or regional jail for which the department is required to 
establish standards pursuant to section 1208, 1208-A or 1208-B. 
2. County Jail Operations Fund. The County Jail Operations Fund is established to 
provide funding for county jails and the regional jail. State funding must be appropriated 
annually for the fund in the amount of $20,342,104 plus any additional amount the 
Legislature may appropriate. The department shall administer the fund and shall distribute 
funds to the jails in accordance with this section for the purposes set forth in subsections 3 
and 4 and in accordance with the distribution formula set forth in subsection 9. 
3. Community corrections; pretrial release program. At least 25% of all funding 
provided under this section must be used by the county jails and regional jail for 
establishing, providing and maintaining community corrections and programs and services 
required by section 1208-B, subsection 4, paragraph D. Jail programs and services must 
include a program, directly or through a contract with an organization, to supervise 
defendants subject to pretrial release conditions imposed pursuant to Title 15, section 1026, 
subsection 3, paragraph A subparagraph (1) and such 'requirements as may be established 
by rule or order of the Supreme Judicial Court. 
4. Prisoner support. The fund must be used to provide a portion of the counties' costs 
of the support of prisoners detained or sentenced to jail. 
5. Quarterly payments to counties. The department shall distribute funding payable 
to the counties for operation of the jails quarterly if the jails have reported on a timely basis 
as required by subsection 6 and rules adopted pursuant to subsection 7. Failure to report 
as required may result in delayed payment of funds required to be paid by this section. 
6. Required reporting. The county jails and the regional jail shall report to the 
department any data required by the council pursuant to section 1208-B, subsection 4, 
paragraph E, on the schedule and in the format required by the council. Failure of a jail to 
report as required may result in delayed quarterly payments to the counties as provided in 
subsection 5 and as set forth by rule. 
7. Rulemaking. The council shall adopt rules to implement the financial accounting, 
reporting and data collection systems and requirements necessary for implementing this 
section, including any data required to be collected pursuant to section 1208-B, subsection 
5. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 
5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
8. Surcharge. In addition to the 14% and 5% surcharges collected pursuant to Title 
4, section 1057, an additional 1% surcharge must be added to every fine, forfeiture or 
penalty imposed by any court in this State, which, for the purposes of collection and 
collection procedures, is considered a part of the fine, forfeiture or penalty. All funds 
collected pursuant to this subsection are nonlapsing and must be deposited monthly in the 
fund. 
9. Formula; distribution. The council shall establish a formula for the quarterly 
distribution described in subsection 5. The department shall distribute quarterly to each 
county from the fund the amount due to that county as determined according to the formula. 
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The formula must be based on the most recent fiscal year for which data is available for the 
county and must: 
A. Take into consideration total statewide county jail prisoner days for all jails; 
B. Take into consideration and assign to a jail the number of county jail prisoner days 
attributable to each prisoner who was charged with committing a crime in that county 
or who was committed to the custody of or detained by the sheriff of that county; and 
C. Determine the proportion of statewide county jail prisoner days attributable to each 
county. 
10. Annual reporting to legislative committee. By October 1st annually, the 
department in collaboration with a statewide association of county commissioners and a 
statewide association of sheriffs shall report to the joint standing committee of the 
Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters regarding the 
following issues: county jail and regional jail funding through the General Fund, pursuant 
to Title 30-A, section 701 and from any other revenue sources; funding and operation of 
community corrections and programs and services required by section 1208-B, subsection 
4, paragraph D and this section; distribution of funding to the county jails and regional jail; 
jail reporting of revenues, expenses and populations as required by this section; the 
experiences of the counties in setting their tax assessments for correctional services under 
Title 30-A, section 701; and the adoption and implementation of rules specifying best 
practices, including mandatory standards, policies and procedures, under section 1208-B. 
Sec. A-4. 34-A MRSA §1210-F is enacted to read: 
§1210-F. County Corrections Professional Standards Council 
The County Corrections Professional Standards Council, established in Title 5, section 
12004-G, subsection 6-D and referred to in this section as "the council," is established to 
evaluate and advise the commissioner with regard to the composition of programs and 
services required pursuant to section 1208-B, subsection 4; to develop rules for reporting 
to the department the information required in section 1208-B, subsection 5 and, beginning 
July 1, 2023, as required in section 1210-E, subsection 6; to develop budget 
recommendations for the department related to the County Jail Operations Fund established 
in section 1210-E, the recommendations for which must be submitted to the commissioner 
and the Governor as part of the State's biennial budget process; to make supplemental 
county jail funding recommendations to the department related to the fund as may be 
needed from time to time to address shortfalls, emergencies or other needs; and to consider 
the need for legislation regarding required programs, services and reporting and to submit 
such legislation to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
criminal justice and public safety matters. 
1. Membership. The council consists of 7 members appointed by the commissioner 
as follows: 
A. 
Two members selected from a list of nominations submitted by a statewide 
association of county commissioners; 
B. 
Two members selected from a list of nominations submitted by a statewide 
association of sheriffs; 
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C. 
One member selected from a list of nominations submitted by a statewide 
association representing municipalities; and 
D. Two members appointed at the commissioner's discretion. 
2. Terms. Council members serve for 2-year terms and until their successors have 
been appointed. A vacancy must be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. 
3. First meeting; chair. 
When all appointments have been made pursuant to 
subsection 1, the commissioner shall call the first meeting of the council. By a majority 
vote, the council shall select a chair from the members appointed under subsection 1, 
paragraphs A and B to serve a 2-year term. 
4. Standards regarding failure to report. The council shall adopt rules specifying 
standards regarding reporting data as required by section 1210-E, subsection 6 to take effect 
beginning July 1, 2023 and shall adopt rules specifying standards for delaying payments to 
jails based on failure to report. 
5. Rulemaking. The council shall adopt rules in accordance with this section, section 
1210-E, subsection 7 and section 1208-B, subsection 5. Rules adopted pursuant to this 
subsection are routine technical rules as defined by Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. 
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection may not take effect before July 1, 2023. 
Sec. A-5. Effective date. Those sections of this Part that repeal the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1210-D and that enact Title 34-A, section 1210-E take effect 
July 1, 2023. 
PARTB 
Sec. B-1. 30-A MRSA §701, sub-§2-C, as repealed and replaced by PL 2017, c. 
475, Pt. A, §50, is amended to read: 
2-C. Tax assessment for correctional services begiBBiBg .Je:ly 1, 201S. Beginning 
July 1, ~ 
2022, the counties shall annually collect no less thaa $62,172,371 the base 
assessment limit of $82,110,358 from municipalities for the provision of correctional 
services in accordance with this subsection. +he In subsequent years, the counties may 
collect an amount that is more or less than the base assessment limit established in this 
subsection, except that if the amount is increased above the base assessment limit 
established in this subsection, the additional amount each year may not exceed the base 
assessment limit as adjusted by 4% or the growth limitation factor~ established in section 
706-A, subsection 3 er--4%, including any adjustments for extraordinary circumstances 
allowed under section 706-A, subsection 5, whichever is less greater. A county may not 
increase its base assessment limit under this subsection if the county has not reported the 
revenues, expenses and populations information required by section 1210-E, subsection 6. 
If a county collects in a year an amount that is more or less than the base assessment limit 
established for that county pursuant to this subsection, the base assessment limit in the 
succeeding year is the amount collected in the prior year, excluding any adjustments for 
extraordinary circumstances allowed under section 706-A, subsection 5. For the purposes 
of this subsection, "correctional services" includes management services, personal services, 
contractual services, commodity purchases, capital expenditures and all other costs, or 
portions thereof, necessary to maintain and operate correctional services. "Correctional 
services" does not include county jail debt unless there is a surplus in the account that pays 
for correctional services at the end of the state fiscal year. 
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The assessment to municipalities within each county may not be less than exceed the base 
assessment limit, which is: 
A. A sum of $4,287,340 $5,300,000 in Androscoggin County; 
B. A sum of $2,316,666 $3,249,000 in Aroostook County; 
C. A sum of $11,575,602 $15,355,672 in Cumberland County; 
D. A sum of $1,621,201 $2,400,000 in Franklin County; 
E. A sum of $1,670,136 $2,126,002 in Hancock County; 
F. A sum of $5,588,343 $8,222,098 in Kennebec County; 
G. A sum of $3,188,700 $4,793,893 in Knox County; 
H. A sum of $2,657,105 $3,141,105 in Lincoln County; 
I. A sum of $1,228,757 $2,400,000 in Oxford County; 
J. A sum of$5,919,118 $10,315,042 in Penobscot County; 
K. A sum of $878,940 $1,486,750 in Piscataquis County; 
L. A sum of $2,657,105 $2,967,105 in Sagadahoc County; 
M. A sum of $5,363,665 $5,900,000 in Somerset County; 
N. A sum of$2,832,353 $3,038,999 in Waldo County; 
0. A sum of $2,000,525 $2,120,557 in Washington County; and 
P. A sum of $8,386,815 $9,294,135 in York County. 
Sec. B-2. 30-A MRSA §701, sub-§2-D is enacted to read: 
2-D. 
Requirement of legislative approval to adjust base assessment for 
correctional services. A county may adjust its base assessment limit under subsection 
2-C, paragraphs A to P only with the approval of the Legislature. Beginning July 1, 2026, 
once every 4 years a county may submit for approval by the Legislature a request to adjust 
the base assessment limit for that county. To begin the process for legislative approval, the 
county shall submit the information required by this subsection to the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety 
matters. The joint standing committee may introduce a bill to grant approval of the 
adjustment of the base assessment limit for the county and to amend the base assessment 
limit set in subsection 2-C. The information that must be submitted includes the following: 
A. The tax assessments for the current year and each of the 2 prior years; 
B. The amount of the requested increase; 
C. Justification for the requested increase, including, but not limited to, all cost drivers, 
alternative cost reductions considered by the county and cost factors that limit savings, 
such as employment contracts, medical and insurance costs, capital expenditures and 
changes to incarceration standards; 
D. Copies of results of independent financial audits for the current year and each of 
the 2 prior years; 
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E. A record of the vote of the county budget committee on the request for approval of 
the increase in the base assessment limit, including, if the vote was not unanimous, a 
record of why a member of the budget committee voted against making the request: 
F. A record of the vote of the county commissioners on the request for approval of the 
increase in the base assessment limit, including, if the vote was not unanimous, a record 
of why a county commissioner voted against making the request: and 
G. Certification of approval of the request by the county commissioners. 
Sec. B-3. Appropriation for fiscal year 2022-23. For fiscal year 2022-23, the 
Legislature shall appropriate at least $20,342,104 in General Fund funding to the County 
Jail Operations Fund established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1210-D. 
PARTC 
Sec. C-1. 34-A MRSA §1208-B, sub-§4 is enacted to read: 
4. 
Requirements; rulemaking by commissioner. 
The jails shall operate in 
accordance with best practices applicable to facilities of their type and size, including the 
mandatory standards, policies and procedures established by rules adopted by the 
commissioner under subsection 1, and with the following requirements as set forth in rules 
adopted by the commissioner. In adopting rules under this subsection, the commissioner 
shall consider the advisory input of the County Corrections Professional Standards Council 
established pursuant to Title 5, section 12004-G, subsection 6-D. 
A. Each jail shall participate in coordination of inmate transportation. Coordination 
of transportation may be provided by the jail at which the inmate resides, by another 
jail or correctional facility or by a person or entity working under a contract with the 
jail at which the inmate resides. 
B. Each jail shall provide access to substance use disorder screening, assessment, 
medication, treatment, recovery and reentry: services, including at a minimum: 
(1) Screening on intake using evidence-based tools to assess the risk of overdose 
or withdrawal and the person's history of substance use disorder and to determine 
initial treatment options: 
(2) Medically managed withdrawal treatment consistent with evidence-based 
medical standards: 
(3) All forms of medication for addiction treatment, including at least one of each 
formulation of each United States Food and Drug Administration-approved 
medication-assisted treatments for substance use disorder, including alcohol use 
disorder and opioid use disorder, to ensure that each person receives the particular 
formulation found to be the most effective at treating and meeting the person's 
individual needs. Medication under this subparagraph must be offered for the 
duration of the person's incarceration: 
(4) Behavioral treatment options, such as group and individual counseling, and 
clinical support: 
(5) Peer support services: 
( 6) Reentry planning and transitional support such as coordination with 
community-based treatment and case management service providers and recovery 
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organizations to ensure reentry and continuity of care after release, including 
appointments for services made prior to release; and 
(7) Assistance in obtaining health insurance prior to release. 
Substance use disorder services required by this paragraph may be provided at the jail 
at which the person resides or at another jail or correctional facility or by a service 
provider or entity working under a contract with the jail at which the person resides. 
C. Each jail shall provide mental health treatment, including at a minimum providing 
a licensed clinician or licensed professional organization that will be available to assist 
an inmate who is a person receiving mental health treatment. Mental health treatment 
required by this paragraph may be provided at the jail at which the person resides or at 
another jail or correctional facility or by a service provider or entity working under a 
contract with the jail at which the person resides. 
D. Each jail shall provide community programs and services as required by this 
subchapter, including at a minimum pretrial or conditional release, alternative 
sentencing or housing programs and electronic monitoring. 
E. Each jail shall provide initial and ongoing training and technical assistance for 
facility staff and health care practitioners on screening, assessment, medication and 
treatment protocols for substance use disorder. 
Sec. C-2. 34-A MRSA §1208-B, sub-§5 is enacted to read: 
5. Requirements; rulemaking by the council. The jails shall operate in accordance 
with rules adopted pursuant to this subsection. The County Corrections Professional 
Standards Council, established pursuant to Title 5, section 12004-G, subsection 6-D, shall 
adopt rules governing the collection and reporting of data by jails as necessary to implement 
this section. The rules may consider the cost impacts of policy decisions by jails and the 
State, best practices for the operation of jails, the cost-effective delivery of services by jails, 
program participation, categories of inmates and reasons for detention or incarceration. In 
adopting data collection rules, the council shall at minimum require jails to report the 
following data: 
A. The revenues and expenses associated with operating the jail; 
B. The population of persons detained or committed to the custody of the sheriff. The 
rules must require population reporting on a daily basis and must provide data to the 
department on actual daily population of persons who are detained or incarcerated and 
persons on all forms of community release. Population data must be reported in the 
format required by the rule; and 
C. The funds used for programs and services as required by section 1208-B, subsection 
4, paragraph B. 
The council shall establish the rules, definitions and reporting requirements for a 
centralized data system for county jails. 
Sec. C-3. Rules and standards. 
Pending adoption of rules or standards as 
authorized in section 1 of this Part, jails shall continue to follow standards duly adopted 
under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1208-B except as may be expressly 
set forth in this Act. 
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PARTD 
Sec. D-1. 17-A MRSA §1757, sub-§1, 1C, as enacted by PL 2019, c. 113, Pt. A, 
§2, is amended to read: 
C. The surcharge for the County Jail Operations Fund authorized under Title 34-A, 
section 1210 D 1210-E, subsection~~-
Sec. D-2. 30-A MRSA §1557-B, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 335, §16, is 
amended to read: 
3. Reimbursement. Reimbursement for the support of a prisoner who is transferred 
by a sending jail to a receiving jail or the Department of Corrections is subject to the 
provisions of this subsection. 
A. During a state fiscal year in which at least $12,202,104 the funding required by 
Title 34-A, section 1210-E, subsection 2 has been appropriated to the County Jail 
Operations Fund and disbursements have been made equal to that amount to the 
counties as required by Title 34-A, section 1210 D 1210-E, subsection 5, the receiving 
jail or the department may not charge the sending jail a per diem rate for the transferred 
prisoner. 
B. During a state fiscal year in which less than $12,202,104 the funding required by 
Title 34-A, section 1210-E, subsection 2 has been appropriated to the County Jail 
Operations Fund or disbursements have not been made equal to that amount to the 
counties as required by Title 34-A, section 1210 D 1210-E, subsection 5, the following 
provisions apply: 
( 1) The receiving jail may charge the sending jail a per diem rate for the transferred 
prisoner; 
(2) The rate charged by the receiving jail must equal the per diem per prisoner 
amount calculated by the department in making the disbursement to the counties 
under Title 34-A, section 1210 D, subseetion 4 1210-E, subsection 9; and 
(3) The department may charge the sending jail an amount that has been negotiated 
between the department and the jail that does not exceed $108 per diem per 
prisoner. 
C. The sending jail shall reimburse the receiving jail or the department for any costs 
incurred in the provision of extraordinary medical or surgical treatment for conditions 
of the prisoner that existed prior to transfer. 
D. Payment amounts provided for in this subsection may be adjusted or dispensed with 
upon terms mutually agreeable to the sheriff of the sending jail and the sheriff of the 
receiving jail or the department. 
Sec. D-3. 34-A MRSA §1208-B, sub-§1, ~' as corrected by RR 2019, c. 2, Pt. 
A, §32, is amended to read: 
B. In administering and distributing funding to the jails pursuant to section 1210 D, 
s:aaseetion 4 1210-E, subsection 5, the commissioner shall: 
(1) Require reporting of data that indicates average daily population of prisoners, 
that excludes federal prisoners, that indicates sending and receiving jails for 
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transferred prisoners and that is useful in calculating the distributions to the 
counties pursuant to section 1210 D, sabseotion 4 1210-E, subsection 9; and 
(2) Consider the performance of each jail in meeting the standards established 
pursuant to this section. The commissioner shall work with the jails to assist them 
in achieving compliance with the standards. The commissioner shall enforce the 
standards by imposition of monetary penalties upon a county for noncompliance 
by the county jail or regional jail. A monetary penalty imposed under this 
s~bseotion subparagraph may not in any fiscal year exceed the County Jail 
Operations Fund distribution payable to a county for a fiscal year pursuant to 
section 1210 D, sabseetion 4 1210-E, subsection 5. 
Sec. D-4. 34-A MRSA §1402, sub-§12, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 335, §24, is 
amended to read: 
12. County and regional jails. The commissioner shall receive, administer and 
distribute to the county and regional jails funding provided through the General Fund, 
Other Special Revenue Funds and any federal and grant funds in accordance with section 
1210 D 1210-E and Title 30-A, section 1659-A. The department shall make distributions 
as required by section 1210 D 1210-E, subsection 5 to each jail on a quarterly basis and as 
may be adjusted pursuant to section 1208-B, subsection 1, paragraph B. 
Sec. D-5. 34-A MRSA §1402, sub-§13, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 335, §24, is 
amended to read: 
13. Report on jails. Beginning JaB-lHtry 15, 2016 October 1, 2023 and annually 
thereafter, the department, in collaboration with a statewide association of sheriffs and a 
statewide association of county commissioners, shall submit a report to the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety 
matters on the mandatory standards, policies and procedures for jails adopted pursuant to 
section 1208-B and the status of funding for the jails from the County Jail Operations Fund 
established in section 1210 D 1210-E, subsection 2, county taxes and other sources. The 
department and representatives of the associations shall conduct a review of the funding 
provided to county and regional jails pursuant to subsection 12 and section 1210 D 1210-
E, subsection 5 and the distribution formula established by the departm:ent pursuant to 
section 1210 D, Sltbseotion 4 1210-E, subsection 9. If the department and the associations 
fmd that changes are needed to the distribution method or procedures or the level of General 
Fund support, the department shall report that finding to the joint standing committee of 
the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and shall 
recommend changes in the formula determined pursuant to section 1210 D, su.bseotioa 4 
1210-E, subsection 9 and the level of General Fund support. After reviewing the report, the 
joint standing committee is authorized to submit legislation to address issues raised by the 
report and to improve the funding and operation of the jails. 
Sec. D-6. 34-A MRSA §3063-C, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2015, c. 335, §28, is 
amended to read: 
3. Reimbursement. By agreement between the commissioner and the sheriff of the 
receiving jail pursuant to this section, the department shall pay directly to the jail 
reimbursement in accordance with this subsection. 
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A. During a state fiscal year in which at least $12,202,104 the funding required by 
section 1210-E, subsection 2 has been appropriated to the County Jail Operations Fund 
and disbursements have been made equal to the amount appropriated due to the 
counties as required by section 1210 D 1210-E, the receiving jail may charge the 
department for the transferred prisoner a rate to be negotiated between the sheriff of 
the jail and the department that is no higher than $25 per diem per prisoner. 
B. During a state fiscal year in which less than $12,202,104 the funding required by 
section 1210-E, subsection 2 has been appropriated to the County Jail Operations Fund 
or disbursements have not been made equal to that the amount due to the counties as 
required by section 1210 D 1210-E, the receiving jail may charge the department for 
the transferred prisoner a rate to be negotiated between the sheriff of the county jail 
and the department that is no higher than $108 per diem per prisoner. 
C. The department shall reimburse the receiving jail for any costs incurred in the 
provision of extraordinary medical or surgical treatment for conditions of the prisoner 
that existed prior to transfer. 
D. Payment amounts provided for in this section may be adjusted or dispensed with 
upon terms mutually agreeable to the commissioner and the sheriff of the receiving jail. 
Sec. D-7. Effective date. This Part takes effect July 1, 2023.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill. The amendment establishes a modified system for 
determining state financial support for county jails, including the provision of a statutory 
rate of support in the amount of $20,342,104 plus any additional amount as may be 
approved by the Legislature. The amendment establishes the County Corrections 
Professional Standards Council, which is composed of 7 members, that will advise the 
Commissioner of Corrections regarding jail standards and the establishment of data 
collection and financial accounting rules related to state funding of county jails and jail 
operations and make recommendations to the commissioner regarding state support for 
county jails as part of the state budget process. The amendment requires counties to 
regularly report data to the State, and counties may have quarterly payments from the State 
withheld until any required reports are provided. The amendment updates the base local 
assessment that each county may expend on county jails. That assessment amount may be 
increased by the Legislature or through the local assessment increase process available to 
counties. The amendment provides that a county may not increase its base assessment level 
for county jails until it is current with regard to any required financial and data reporting. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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LD 1654 
LR967(02) 
An Act To Stabilize State Funding for County Corrections 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,(/rr {/f---CJ1cf / 
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY2021-22 
$0 
$0 
FY2022-23 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2023-24 
$1,900,000 
$1,900,000 
Projections 
FY2024-25 
$1,900,000 
$1,900,000 
Effective July 1, 2023, the bill repeals and replaces the County Jail Operations Fund within the Department of 
Corrections to provide funding for county jails and the regional jail. The Department of Corrections will need General 
Fund appropriations of$20,342,104 annually beginning in fiscal year 2023-24 to distribute funds to the county jails 
and deappropriations of$18,442,104 annually beginning in fiscal year 2023-24 to remove the baseline General Fund 
appropriation. The net effect is an increase in General Fund appropriations of $1,900,000 beginning in fiscal year 
2023-24. 
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