This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 73 to implement statutory changes recommended by the County Corrections Professional Standards Council. The bill increases the amount of state funding appropriated annually to the County Jail Operations Fund from $20,342,104 to $28,342,104 effective July 1, 2026 and provides that the amount must be increased annually by 4%. The bill requires the State to appropriate an additional $5,000,000 in funding to the County Jail Operations Fund, which may be used for establishing and maintaining community programs and services such as pretrial or conditional release, alternative sentencing or housing programs and electronic monitoring. Current law requires county jails to use 25% of the provided state funding for the County Jail Operations Fund to maintain these programs and services. The bill also requires that the formula for the distribution of funds be based on the previous state fiscal year for which data is available rather than the most recent fiscal year for which data is available. The committee has not taken a position on the substance of the bill, and by reporting the bill out, the committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of the bill. The committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of obtaining a printed bill that can be referred to the committee for a public hearing and subsequent committee action in the normal course.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 2232, HP 1507: 34-A.1210