Senate Bill No. 259 Summary

• Requires county fiscal body appropriation for payments from certain county funds, including supplemental juvenile and adult probation services funds, instead of allowing payments without appropriation.

• Expands the use of county supplemental juvenile probation services fund to pay part or all of juvenile probation officer salaries (not just supplement), and allows county fiscal body to determine appropriation amounts.

• Expands the use of county and local supplemental adult probation services funds to provide full probation services and pay all or part of probation officer salaries, with county or city/town fiscal bodies determining appropriation amounts.

• Repeals restrictions on supplemental probation services funds that prohibited using administrative fees only for salary increases effective January 1, 2004, allowing broader fund use.

• Changes jail commissary fund reporting from semiannual to monthly to county fiscal body and restricts commissary animal expenditures to law enforcement animals only.