REFERENCE TITLE: felony pretrial intervention programs; appropriation

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017

SB 1278

Introduced by Senators Smith: Allen S, Barto, Worsley; Representative Allen J

 

AN ACT

 

appropriating monies for felony pretrial intervention programs.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Appropriation; felony pretrial intervention programs; exemption

A.  The sum of $2,750,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2017-2018 to the administrative office of the courts.  The administrative office of the courts shall proportionately distribute the monies to county attorney offices that are located in counties with a population of more than two hundred thousand persons for the purpose of administering felony intervention programs.  Each county attorney's office must use the monies to administer a felony pretrial intervention program that places persons who are or could be charged with a nondangerous and nonviolent offense in an intervention program.  The intervention program must include medically assisted treatment options and case management services and must require participants to have random drug testing, if appropriate.  The county attorney may place persons who have co‑occurring disorders in a felony pretrial intervention program that is funded pursuant to this section.

B.  The appropriation made in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.