Senate Bill 233 Summary

• Requires county fiscal body appropriation before money can be paid from certain county funds, including property reassessment funds, supplemental probation services funds, and jail commissary funds (changes from prior law allowing payments without appropriation).

• Expands permitted uses of county supplemental juvenile probation services fund to pay full salaries of juvenile probation officers (not just supplement salaries) and removes restriction on replacing other funding sources.

• Expands permitted uses of county and local supplemental adult probation services fund to pay full salaries of probation officers (not just supplement salaries) and removes restriction on replacing other funding sources.

• Repeals provisions restricting how administrative fees deposited into probation services funds could be used; gives county and city/town fiscal bodies discretion to determine appropriation amounts from these funds.

• Changes sheriff's monthly reporting requirement for jail commissary fund receipts and disbursements from semiannually to monthly.