HB2189 Summary

• Authorizes counties to establish coordinated reentry planning services programs within county jails to screen, assess, and connect arrested persons with behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment providers early in the criminal justice process.

• Requires programs to maintain a cross-system recidivism tracking database incorporating data from prearrest diversion, booking screenings, reentry planning, and postrelease treatment engagement.

• Establishes a coordinated reentry planning services program committee for each county program, consisting of representatives from law enforcement, service providers, public defenders, prosecutors, courts, and other stakeholders.

• Appropriates $8,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2021-2022 and $7,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 to the fund, with up to $1,000,000 available annually for establishing recidivism tracking databases.

• Distributes appropriated funds to eligible counties with populations not exceeding 1.5 million persons based on proportional population share.