ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2422: coordinated reentry planning services programs

Sponsor:  Representative Barto, LD 15

Committee on Public Safety

Overview

Allows a county to establish a coordinated reentry planning services program and appropriates monies into the coordinated reentry planning services program fund.

History

The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (AJCJ) was created in 1982 to carry out carious coordinating, monitoring and reporting functions regarding the administration and management of criminal justice programs in Arizona. The Commission is comprised of 19 members who represent various elements of the criminal justice system in Arizona. 14 of the 19 members are appointed by the Governor and are municipal, county or elected officials.

Statute outlines the powers and duties of ACJC, which includes monitoring the progress and implementation of new and continuing criminal justice legislation, facilitating research among criminal justice agencies and maintaining information, facilitating coordinated statewide efforts to improve criminal justice information and data sharing and preparing a biennial criminal justice system review report for the Governor (A.R.S. § 41-2405).

Provisions

1.    ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteAllows a county to establish a coordinated reentry planning services program (program) within a county jail to screen and assess individuals who are booked into a county jail and to connect those individuals with behavioral health and substance abuse disorder treatment providers as soon as possible in the criminal justice process. (Sec. 1)

2.    Requires the program to:

a)    Allow entities to access and use a cross-recidivism tracking database (database);

b)    Allow entities to work in conjunction with counties, cities, towns and other Arizona political subdivisions and Superior Courts to create an information exchange mechanism;

c)    Allow county and community-wide collaborative efforts to be established and maintained for jail reentry planning services;

d)    Establish working agreements with coalition partners; and

e)    Use the database to record baseline and ongoing statistics for identified needs, referrals and future recidivism of reentry coordination participants. (Sec. 1)

3.    Mandates a county that establishes the program to establish a committee to develop the program's policies and procedures and outlines the committee membership requirements. (Sec.1)

4.    Establishes the program fund to provide monies to counties that establish the program.     (Sec. 1)

5.    Directs ACJC to administer the fund, which consists of appropriated monies that are subject to legislative appropriations. (Sec. 1)

6.    Appropriates $8,000,000 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY2021 and $7,000,000 in FY2022 and FY2023 to the program fund. (Sec. 2)

7.    Allocates $8,000,000 from the program fund in FY2021 to a county with a population of not more than 1.5 million people to establish the program and allows up to $1,000,000 of the total appropriation to be used to establish cross-system recidivism tracking databases. (Sec. 2)

8.    Allocates $7,000,000 from the program fund in FY2022 and FY2023 to a county with a population of not more than 1.5 million people that has established or to establish the program. (Sec. 2)

9.    States, for each appropriation, each eligible county will receive a proportional share on the appropriations based on the county's population. (Sec. 2)

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