HB 1562 Summary

• Establishes a performance incentive grant program for parole and probation supervising programs (department and county offices) based on reductions in confinement costs during the preceding fiscal year.

• Requires the budget agency to calculate savings from reduced confinement rates for supervised individuals who violated supervision conditions or were convicted of new felonies, comparing the immediately preceding year to the baseline fiscal year (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011).

• Appropriates 45% of avoided expenditures from supervision violations and 45% of avoided expenditures from new felony convictions for distribution among qualifying supervising programs proportional to their contribution to cost reductions.

• Distributes incentive funds with 67% allocated proportionally to all qualifying programs and up to 11% each for programs achieving increases in supervised individual employment, victim restitution payments, and decreases in controlled substance positivity rates.

• Restricts use of received funds to implementing evidence-based practices, expanding risk reduction and substance abuse treatment programs, and grants to nonprofit victim services organizations.

• Effective July 1, 2011.